Danville Railroad Bridge

I just looked this bridge up on Google Earth, and although the tracks on the south side of the bridge are clearly active about half a mile from the bridge, on the north side the tracks are missing, and about 2 miles or so north of the bridge, the Danville Municipal Airport's runway occupies the Right of Way.

Those railroad cars have been on that bridge for quite a while, maybe even decades. I am assuming they were left there to prevent people walking out on the bridge.

The rail line appears to be abandoned on the north side of this bridge, in fact I don't think the rails extend much beyond the bridge, but on the east side, going east there appears to be some recent traffic, maybe a little.

Visited this bridge at 4:30 pm on 11 Nov. 2006. Had trouble locating this bridge as it is not visible from a road. I even asked the gate watchman at the Petit Jean Poultry truck yard for directions, but he didn't know about it even though its only about 1/4 mile behind their facility. I took a side road and parked at a maintenance yard at a RR crossing and walked about 1/2 mile down the tracks to the bridge. About 10 box cars are static on the bridge making it awkward to get around. They occupy 90% of the bridge. Had to carefully walk on laced girder. Getting pictures was exceedingly difficult because of all the understory growth.

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