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The subject of the March 2013 contest is "BRIDGES"

Show us your best Two bridge shots, big and tall or wooden and small.  Images must be taken by you, and must be Norfolk Southern or predecessor lines from any time period. All standard contest rules apply.

Entries will be taken up until Friday, March 21st. 

On Thanksgiving Morning of 2013, Norfolk Southern 288 breaks the stillness of the morning as it crosses the seldom photographed Eagle Creek Trestle.
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Sporting a fresh SD60E, Norfolk Southern 61A Starts its climb up the hill out of Cincinnati.
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Well since Tyler threw out his Royal Flush with the eagle Creek bridge, here's my humble entries!

1) Northbound at Tennbridge September 2011

2) Northbound at High Bridge also September 2011

Here are my two entries!

1: Virginian 1069 leads NS 22A over the Shelbyville Bridge

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3797/9651742385_8bcc33299b_c.jpg)

2: Reading 1067 leads NS 55A over High Bridge

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1) NS 264 at Bromley, Kentucky on October 30, 2010.

2) NS 591 with the LV heritage unit in it's first version crosses the Monongahela River on the Port Perry Bridge at Duquesne, Pennsylvania on May 20, 2012.

Erie under the Erie.
H13 is about to roll under the ex Erie Bridge that spans the ex LV main, which the train is on. In the distance the train is crossing Cayuta Creek and passing under INT86.

DLW on the DLW.
DLW 1074 crosses the ex DL&W bridge over the Susquehanna River in Binghamton, NY.

Now, this is hard. I have so many bridge pics I do not know where to start... so, after much back and forth... here I go.

Here we see the Interstate Heritage Unit roll overhead as a DPU on the old Virginian Rwy Trestle with catanery supports still alive... although no wires.  :(   DE Dan

Next up... A train waits in the middle of the night on the old Reading RR Lurgan Branch Bridge in Harrisburg, PA. It would wait for about an hour for a spot at the fuel pad... giving me enough time to set up the tripod and take a 30 sec exposure. DE Dan

Here's mine, t19 with a standard cab 70 running through shelbyville ky by the stripped down remains of a church bell.

And the "Dingling" bros circus train rolling thru south fork ky

Show Ponies !

First - NS 203 on the Tugaloo River Bridge crossing from SC to GA on the Piedmont main:
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Second- NS 212 squeezes under the Southern wood bridge in downtown Lula, GA with a special visitor leading:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3594/13021078115_bd3f41482e_c.jpg)

-Chip  :)

I'll kick in a couple of excursion photos.  First the OCS southbound going under the ridge at Keno.  And then 630 crossing the Tennessee River in Knoxville in the early morning haze.

OCS on the K&I bridge headed to Youngtown Yard in July, 2011. Taken from the flood wall in New Albany.

Stew

NS 22A Jeffersontown Ky

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NS 22A Jeffersontown Ky. From the drivers side of a moving vehicle holding the camera out the passenger side.

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Northbound NS 224 rumbles across the Green River Bridge at Southfork, KY in December of 2011, watched by a vacant old house that has probably seen more trains than all of us combined.

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A pair of EMD's drag the Alcoa branch local over the TN River at Knoxville, TN framed by the concrete arched Henley Street bridge. The big orange thing in the background is the CSX KD sub bridge.  October, 2011

(http://jreb.org/v-web/gallery/albums/Bellpost13/NSlocaltnriverknoxville100910.sized.jpg)

This is my contest entry.  I might enter another one I have.

This photo was made on film, in 2001.  The bridge is over the Cumberland River/Lake Cumberland, between Somerset and Burnside, KY.  Locomotives are: Conrail #2560, an SD70,  which became NS-2560, and NS-6652, an SD60.

Thanks for the outstanding number of entries this month!  The poll is open and will be active until Friday, March 28 @ 1:30 pm.   Be sure to get your votes in before then.

The topic for the April Contest will be announced April 1st. 

Here's a hint for the next topic, External Combustion.

Just a reminder, voting closes at Noon tomorrow (Friday March 28th) so be sure to get your vote in before then!

A Tie!   Carmon Bell and Tyler Hardin have tied in this months contest with 7 votes each.  Due to the weekends activities, we will start a "Sudden Death" round between Carmon and Tyler on Monday morning. Stay tuned, and figure out who you want to vote for in the tie breaker!