The river flows...

[sheepherder]

...Was to be free
And that's the way
It turned out to be...

It was a beautiful day out today, so I spent a couple hours looking for the 'Upside-Down' bridge. I found it. It was about 10 feet away from a viaduct I pass under about 15-20 times a week. There's no fences or any obstruction blocking access to the bridge - You could just climb up the slope where the viaduct is and be on the railtrack. I didn't climb it. I wasn't even sure if it was allowed to park where I was (I often see City Police cars parked there, radar-ing speeders coming up the hill).

The third pic is of one of the Canal locks, with the bridge in the background. Next pic is of another lock up-Escarpment from the last lock. The Erie Canal and the rail line runs roughly parallel to Lake Ontario although some 15-20 miles South of the lake. There is what is called locally "The Escarpment", which is simply the difference in height above sea level between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Where I live, in Lockport, that difference is 224 feet. My house is 6 feet above the level of Lake Ontario. Hence, the locks. Trains also have to climb that Escarpment, but the rail line is much more gradual. The locks and bridges are in a perpetual state of repair/maintenance. My tax dollars at work. There's virtually no commercial traffic on the Canal, it's pretty much all recreational now.

I noticed a couple of passenger cars parked on a remote siding. I wanted to get closer but this is a 'rough' part of the City and I was hesitant about intruding on anyone's 'turf'. Going a couple blocks farther North I noticed a couple more, obviously boarded up and unused for years. These two, like the other two, were parked on an unused siding (possibly the same one) alongside warehouses that did have regular tractor-trailer traffic while I was there. Offices or storage maybe?

When I had first pulled off the street at the viaduct, an engine with several cars was just crossing the bridge. I wasn't fast enough to get out and take a pic of that. So, I went down to what I think is the 'train yard' (there's only two engines in the Falls Road Railroad). I couldn't get in a position to take a pic of the front of the trainshed, just the rear. It looks like there's some kind of rail machinery parked there, but the engines weren't in sight.

My digital camera with it's tiny LED display screen was washed out in the bright sunlight; I couldn't see/read the symbols on the screen, so the pics are pretty poor. (Couldn't even tell when they were in focus, if they ever were). For some unknown reason, the camera switched from single-pics to .AVI for the last three shots. I had to take SS's from the video.

An interesting tour of part of the FRR line. If I get a chance in overcast daylight I'll take better pics, and maybe get a shot of the engines.