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Iconic US Bridge of Sticks Burns Down

Post by cronus » Thu May 23, 2013 3:55 pm



Good thing you've that London bridge made of stone as a back-up, built by wiser piggies. :coffee:
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Re: Iconic US Bridge of Sticks Burns Down

Post by Trinity » Thu May 23, 2013 4:48 pm

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Re: Iconic US Bridge of Sticks Burns Down

Post by PsychoSerenity » Thu May 23, 2013 4:50 pm

Looks like a new dominoes world record.
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Post by SteveB » Thu May 23, 2013 4:51 pm

I'm gonna guess Texas? :shifty:
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu May 23, 2013 5:12 pm

HE'S PSYCHIC! BURN THE WITCH! :mob:
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Re: Iconic US Bridge of Sticks Burns Down

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu May 23, 2013 5:38 pm

Wasn't that the bridge in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"?
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Post by cronus » Thu May 23, 2013 5:47 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Wasn't that the bridge in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"?
Looks like the one in a lot of the old cowboy movies.
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Re: Iconic US Bridge of Sticks Burns Down

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu May 23, 2013 5:51 pm

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Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Wasn't that the bridge in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"?
Looks like the one in a lot of the old cowboy movies.
Yepper. They build this one in just a few day, during the ACW.

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Re: Iconic US Bridge of Sticks Burns Down

Post by cronus » Thu May 23, 2013 6:01 pm

Stone is safer and only takes a little longer to put together. :tup:
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Re: Iconic US Bridge of Sticks Burns Down

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu May 23, 2013 6:08 pm

Scrumple wrote:Stone is safer and only takes a little longer to put together. :tup:
Crap.
The Potomac Run Bridge
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The need to keep the trains running to the front resulted in some amazing displays of engineering prowess during the Civil War. This bridge in Virginia was constructed of "round sticks cut from the woods, and not even divested of bark" in May 1862.

The Army boasted that the bridge was built in nine working days, using the labor of the "common soldiers of the Army of the Rappahannock, under the supervision of Brigadier General Herman Haupt, Chief of Railroad Construction and Transportation."

The bridge may look precarious, but it carried up to 20 trains a day.
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