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I don't know if you know this, but I'm pretty sure you do because of what you do but the Bridgeton Bridge in Bridgeton Indiana was lost last Thursday or Friday. It was 245 ft long, built over the Big Racoon River. My wife and I were going to visit my parents and we drive past the bridge to go to their house. This time we were surprised because it wasn't there. All that was there was this huge mess of burnt wood and tin. I personally can remember riding my bike over the bridge as a kid in the 1970's and we used to use it to get away from the summer heat. It was nice to hear the water running underneath and to be able to look out the windows. My grandmother used to tell me stories that she had when she was a little girl during the early 1900's and how they used to go over it on horse and buggy. When I saw the mess that now it is now I didn't know to cry or what as it took my breath away when I drove past it the first time. The next day my wife and I went out there for a better look and everyone we talked to had a story. I don't understand how anyone can do what they did to that bridge. No matter how many times they rebuild this bridge it will not have the memories like the old bridge had. People in this country I think have lost the one thing that truly makes us Americans which is Pride and the respect of our heritage of our history of our families and our country. I personally love all old building because I like to think of the hard work they put into these buildings and that they didn't have power tools and yet they're standing longer than these high tech houses. The one thing I wish this government would do is make it stiff prison time for ANYONE that takes fire to any historic site. Thank you for your time. I'd better go now. I just wanted to share my thoughts with someone who looks like they also care for our past and our future. Truly, Nathan Brown Dear Nathan: I have received your note. I am sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. November 13, 2004 - I have enclosed two slides of the old railroad bridge which
burned about 18 - 20 years ago.
by Timothy Phelps November 1, 2004 - Joe, Attached is a zip archive containing a number of photos of Covered Bridges on the St.J&LC Railroad. The two pictures from the wayside of train passing through Fisher Bridge were taken by my father, Richard Phelps, in the summer of 1967, the first year of Pinsley operation of the railroad. As I had noted, this was before the steel structure was put beneath the original bridge to allow heavier locomotives to operate. I was taking an 8 mm color movie of the same train as my dad took these B&W still photos. The two "on train" pictures are in my photograph collection, and are from a friend who had ridden the mixed train across the line in the early 1950s. I am not sure of the identity of the two bridges in these pictures. The steam era photograph was from an old magazine article, and I believe is of a bridge near Hardwick.
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Joe Nelson, P.O Box 267, Jericho, VT 05465-0267
This file updated June 23, 2005