{"id":3636,"date":"2024-03-03T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2024-03-03T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:23:13","slug":"the-bridge-at-vicksburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/03\/the-bridge-at-vicksburg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge at Vicksburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the spring of 1996 a friend and I motored up into Mississippi to check out the various railroad facilities there.  We got as far as Vicksburg, and while there we found a spot overlooking the big bridge spanning the Mississippi River.  As luck would have it, a Kansas City Southern freight train appeared, and I recorded this view of the train as it was reaching land on the east bank of the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This bridge has both the rail line and the old US Highway 80 on it.  That&#8217;s the roadway angling up at right from the bridge.  A few years after this image was made, automobile traffic was halted, being transferred to the new I-20 bridge just downstream.  There is some interesting history on this bridge, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Vicksburg_Bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">follow this link to read its story<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This slide is a rare flood survivor . . . glad to still have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/KCS-at-Vicksburg-wSig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/KCS-at-Vicksburg-wSig.jpg\" alt=\"KCS Train at Vicksburg, MS\" class=\"wp-image-3634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/KCS-at-Vicksburg-wSig.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/KCS-at-Vicksburg-wSig-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/KCS-at-Vicksburg-wSig-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/KCS-at-Vicksburg-wSig-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the spring of 1996 a friend and I motored up into Mississippi to check out the various railroad facilities there. We got as far as Vicksburg, and while there we found a spot overlooking the big bridge spanning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/03\/the-bridge-at-vicksburg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}