Maybe this beautiful bridge will lure PeWi out of hiding.  It's my favorite -- Deception Pass bridge.  

This shows only one of the spans and captures the beauty of the setting more than the bridge.  But the bridge itself is also very beautiful.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

I grew up a few miles from this structure: the Joso Bridge. Finished by the Union Pacific company in 1912, it spans the Snake River Valley for a length of 3920' (1195 meters).

This is not nearly as nice a picture as that linked above, but it also shows on the right the Lyons Ferry bridge. It spanned the Columbia River at Vantage, Washington from its construction in 1927 until 1963, when it was disassembled and stored. In 1968 it was reassembled at its current location, replacing the ferry that had carried autos across the river previously.

All this attendant on the river rising some 60+ feet at that time as a result of being dammed. The typo damned is difficult to resist, but that is a story for another day.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -- Dr Johnson

Here's the Cape Cod Canal railroad bridge. Cape Cod was separated from mainland Massachusetts in 1914 by a canal that was dug using equipment left over from the Panama canal. This cut a lot of dangerous sea mileage from the trip to New York from points north.

There are currently three bridges over the canal, two four-lane automobile bridges and one single-track railroad bridge. The bridge is usually in the "up" position, but comes down for train usage once in a while.

I've been waiting for Friday Bridge Blogging to reappear so that I could post this link to a blog which was recently (and somewhat controversially) named Australia's best blog.  Singing Bridges can be variously looked upon as a travel blog, an unusual music or art project, or a collection of interesting bridge photos.  Enjoy the bridges, anyway!

Beautiful bridge, but:

the world's oldest stone railroad span still in service, the Thomas Viaduct

...this is the third erroneous US claim of world's oldest bridge in some category I see... and I find the fourth on Wikipedia¹, where another, one year older Baltimore & Ohio bridge is given the erroneous title.

Built for the world's first non-mining locomotive-pulled railway (the Stockton & Darlington line, opened 27.09.1825 with Stephenson's "Locomotion"), the Skerne Bridge in Darlington is still in service today.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}