Misc photos from today's outing

[Gary S]

Many years ago, boats navigated the ship channel all the way to downtown Houston. Of course, these were smaller boats, not the gigantic vessels of today. As the port was expanded and the ships got larger, the freight traffic into the city stopped, and there was no need for that bridge to be operable any more.

It is still a great structure, and very "railroady". I don't have a place on my layout to model it though. I'll be doing some smaller bridges.