Show us your bike @ the bridge

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The Oldtown bridge over the Potomac. Connects Maryland with West Virginia. Toll $0.25.

Love the bridge, here is an interesting article

http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/5879

In 1995 Maryland officials tried to close the bridge citing safety issues and they actually placed concrete barriers on the approach road cutting off public access to the bridge. Unknown persons kept removing the barriers to get access to the bridge. After some months of this game officialdom gave up.

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Much more here - http://wp.me/p2UWBr-2km

The abandoned bridge across the Powder river, west of Baker, Montana, in the far southeastern part of the state. It now serves as a driveway to someone's house believe it or not. I rode to the end of the bridge and a hundred feet or so from the end is a chain link fence with a sign on it that says "Private Property No Trespassing." There was a house just on the other side of the fence.

The bridge doesn't even look that old. You can see the new stretch of highway just beyond the dirt track visible past the end of the bridge:

View of the Powder river from the bridge:

A sign on the highway near the approach to the old bridge:

The new bridge to the south of the old bridge:

i like that bridge, looks like it should be in a movie!

Where's the photo on the other side?

Natchez Trace Prkwy over 96.

This bridge was closed, somewhere around Smithland TN if I remember right.

Not an epic bridge but a bridge nonetheless...

ya know, my Appalachian tag-o-rama game is stuck at the old bridge in WV at the New River Gorge... Neat pictures of bridges to be had there.

http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=479533&page=108

I know that bridge!

Rafted under it in 2003 then later on borrowed my late father in law's Explorer and took photos over Christmas one year (well he wasn't yet late and wasn't even yet my FIL at the time). No bike though; weak sauce!

Worse is I've got pictures of my bike on the old bridge but alas from 2006 when I went rideabout for a short while. I don't allow file pics to get tags, only to place them. My FIL lives near there though and has a couple of bikes. I may yet work something out.

bridge between North and South Pender islands

Under the New New River Gorge bridge in 2006






The old bridge above


Bike on the old bridge looking at the new bridge.

and some construction details on the old bridge: