What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

MoDot is intending to drop the old, steel truss, Missouri River bridge at Rocheport, Missouri into the river this morning. I gave some thought to going up there to watch, but they're going to close I-70, and I-70 is an extremely busy highway. I decided I didn't want anything to do with that ;)
It's been delayed due to fog:
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I'm sorry to see the truss bridge go. I'm sure it had become high maintenance, and the new bridge was necessary, because there are plans to widen I-70 from two lanes each direction to three, so a new bridge was required, but still...a steel truss bridge is a thing of beauty. Like a steam locomotive.
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When they do drop it -fog is clearing- there will be six million pounds of steel that MoDot has 24 hours to remove from the river.

Worked well yesterday, so 29 again today.
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mbkr said:
MoDot is intending to drop the old, steel truss, Missouri River bridge at Rocheport, Missouri into the river this morning. I gave some thought to going up there to watch, but they're going to close I-70, and I-70 is an extremely busy highway. I decided I didn't want anything to do with that ;)
It's been delayed due to fog:
376750931_700222725481910_3998882857168250705_n.jpg

I'm sorry to see the truss bridge go. I'm sure it had become high maintenance, and the new bridge was necessary, because there are plans to widen I-70 from two lanes each direction to three, so a new bridge was required, but still...a steel truss bridge is a thing of beauty. Like a steam locomotive.
DSC_0268.jpg

When they do drop it -fog is clearing- there will be six million pounds of steel that MoDot has 24 hours to remove from the river.

Worked well yesterday, so 29 again today.
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Hate seeing old structures taken down. I get the economics of it, but the bridge is also history
 
mbkr said:
MoDot is intending to drop the old, steel truss, Missouri River bridge at Rocheport, Missouri into the river this morning. I gave some thought to going up there to watch, but they're going to close I-70, and I-70 is an extremely busy highway. I decided I didn't want anything to do with that ;)
It's been delayed due to fog:
376750931_700222725481910_3998882857168250705_n.jpg

I'm sorry to see the truss bridge go. I'm sure it had become high maintenance, and the new bridge was necessary, because there are plans to widen I-70 from two lanes each direction to three, so a new bridge was required, but still...a steel truss bridge is a thing of beauty. Like a steam locomotive.
DSC_0268.jpg

When they do drop it -fog is clearing- there will be six million pounds of steel that MoDot has 24 hours to remove from the river.

Worked well yesterday, so 29 again today.
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If that bridge was coming down in Germany, Boker would start making knives out of it. 🤣
 
Wenger Canton, and a nice Buck in elk that they made up special for me and some friends. 😉A50E09FE-A9A7-4105-85D0-91E7D412A8B1.jpeg
Post rehearsal shot after a little one on one work with Perry, the sound engineer getting a nice fat, but clean sound out of my guitar.
Once the piano and vocals kick in, I try to turn up, and run out of headroom. 🧐0662BB2B-4C9F-41B7-A2C5-C4C3720D71A1.jpeg
Happy

EDIT: Wenger Canyon
 
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Bridge is down. Go to 25:16 in the vid if you want to see it come down.
Edit: MoDot changed the vid. The one I linked to was 35 minutes long, which is why I said go to 25:16. They cut out the first 25 minutes of nothing :thumbsup:
I find the time lapse between the explosion and sound reaching the camera interesting.


Also toting this little Vic Rally:
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mbkr said:
I'm sorry to see the truss bridge go. I'm sure it had become high maintenance, and the new bridge was necessary, because there are plans to widen I-70 from two lanes each direction to three, so a new bridge was required, but still...a steel truss bridge is a thing of beauty. Like a steam locomotive.
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sad to hear.
I took I-70 crossing that bridge many times before retiring.
Agree that steel bridges can be a thing of beauty.

This is the one coming into/exiting Twin Falls, crossing the Snake River.
I don't know why otherwise intellegent(?) "people" (or "humans"?) "think" putting on a parachute, or attaching a bunch of bungie cords to their ankles, and jumping off the bridge is a "good" idea. 🙄🤣

The spot Eval Knieval (dum azz ...) attempted (he failed 🙄) to jump the Snake River canyon in 1974, is seen under the arch.
(yes. the Snake River is currently considerably narrower. About 1/2 as wide, last I saw at this point in the canyon.)

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I've ridden my bicycles and adult trike across the bridge several times to visit the Jerome, ID Walmart (before Twin got a super center of its own) and to visit the Flying J at I-84, roughly 2 miles left of the bridge. They had a decent sit-down restaurant.

I'm not sure if the restaurant has been closed. I haven't been that way in 6 years now. I know Flying J has closed several of their restaurants a few years ago.
They started developing a tendency to go up in smoke, taking the main building with them. ☹️ Electrcal, and grease in the exhaust fires.
If memory serves, there were 8 or 9 that burned to the ground inside 6 months, around the time I retired.

IMHO, it would REALLY suck to be taking a shower at a truck stop, have your laundry in the washer while taking the shower ... JUST lathering the shampoo ... to have the fire alarm and lights go off ... Especially during the cold winter months in the mid-west and mountain states when there is white stuff on the ground ... with inches more an hour falling.
I "lucked out". None of the truckstops I was visiting burned down when I was in the shower after parking the truck for no less than 10 hours 5 minutes to reset my daily drive clock. 😁👍 (the minutes over 10 hours was a "safety" measure to make sure I got a full 10 hour reset. 9 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds did NOT "count" as 10 hours, resetting the 24 hour clock. Electronic logs. No way to cheat on the times.
 
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