Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: bridges

The Blue Water Bridges from the Doubletree Hotel in Port Huron, Michigan.

Duluth, Minnesota

The US-61 bridge across the Mississippi between Dubuque, Iowa, and Grant County, Wisconsin. I rather like the way all the curving roads come together for the crossing.

The incomparable arch which superceded Fayette Station's bridge, from Fayette Station. This picture also shows the start of the series of rapids--the third is called "Old Nasty"--below the big bridge. ========== A sense of scale: New River Bridge is 900 feet above the river, and the span is over a half mile long. An engineering marvel, and a beautiful structure. Another scale: A century ago there was no bridge. Logging companies were taking the trees, and there were mines--and mining towns--every few hundred feet. The valley was filled with smoke, and the river was polluted. Two hundred years ago this area was an unsurveyed wilderness. The place was considered to be nearly inaccessible. Photo taken July 21, 2004 with my Nikon N90s.

Somehow downtown Cincinnati has six bridges across the Ohio. All are interesting; this one is beautiful. Photo taken July 15, 2004, near the gate of Great American Ballpark (shooting across the hole where Riverfront Stadium used to be).

The great bridge across the New River Gorge. This photo dates from 1997, I think; taken from the grounds at the National Park visitor center. Perhaps you've noticed: I like bridges, too. Perhaps as much as daylilies.... Camera: Chinon Genesis III

When you say "I'm going to The Bridge" anywhere in Michigan, this is the bridge you mean. It's still a couple months before we'll be heading north, but I'm getting impatient. Photo taken June 22, 2003, from the nice little park they've built beside the toll booth. The park is north of the bridge, and the photo looks toward Mackinaw City.

Five years ago: An absolutely gorgeous day in Port Huron, Michigan, looking toward Sarnia, Ontario.

Blue Water Bridges, shot from Point Edward, Ontario, looking toward Port Huron, Michigan.

This steel trestle--locally known as the High Bridge--was built in 1887 by predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway Company to get the road's main line across the Grand River at Grand Ledge. This route nominally connects Detroit and Chicago, by way of Lansing and Grand Rapids. The PM was absorbed by the Chessie system about the time I was born, and the track is now owned by C&O successor CSX. These days the Soo Line (Canadian Pacific) also runs long trains on this track--they deserted Sault Ste. Marie a decade and a half ago. Sometimes I can't look at a bridge without putting things into historical context.... This photo was taken from Second Island in Grand Ledge on April 12, 2003.

Between Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, from cruise ship Nokomis.

The highway bridge (above) and the railroad bridge (below), crossing above the St. Mary's Falls--and the locks--between Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Another photo from Engineers Day, 2005.

Another view of the pair of bridges which connect the two Saults. The high bridge carries I-75 to Canada and was opened in the early 1960s; the lift bridge was constructed by the MSP&SSM (the Soo Line's most direct predecessor) in the nineteenth century. The lift is normally up; it comes down only when there's a train crossing the river. I caught this while the bridge was descending, then hurried over to catch a close view of the train. Shot with my Minolta Freedom 100 in, I think, 1990.

Two bridges named "International"--the high bridge carries the highway across the rapids at Sault Ste. Marie, while the low bridge carries the railroad. (I've mentioned this before .) Taken from the Soo Locks Tour Boat. The weather, as you can see, was terrific.

And the International Bridge between the Twin Saults, against the sunset. Joan's version of this photo is better....

Here's a view of the Bluewater Bridge, featuring Interlake's other ship named Barker. James R. Barker, named for Interlake's CEO, is 1004 feet long and was built 1976 at American Shipbuilding in Lorain. This was the third thousand-foot ship on the Great Lakes, and the first built to the what became the standard design. Stewart Cort and Presque Isle, its 1000 foot predecessors, have to be considered experimental efforts. But the picture's not of the boat; it's of the St. Clair River at the point it leaves Lake Huron. Michigan to the left (or port, as this was taken from Huron Lady II); Ontario to the right (starboard). And the Lake's beyond the bridges. Have I mentioned lately how much I like the 16-85 mm lens? It's wonderful.

Still approaching the lock at Sault Ste Marie, June, 2005. International Bridge in the background, as is the railroad bridge.