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Darin Patrick
posted four photos with the comment:
Dear Friends. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today often reminds me of my youth and high school track practice.
And our annual St. Patrick’s Day plunge off the Monon Bridge!
During my illustrious high school track career of the mid 80’s, on St. Patrick’s Day the track team would run down to the Monon rail line bridge that crossed the Tippecanoe river just north of Highway 421 coming into Monticello (see photo 4).
The Sportsman Inn can been seen in the far left of the Photo.
The Plunge participants would leave the track, run 1.5 miles down to the bridge, leap off the top, then run back to the high school. Oddly enough this annual practice was coach approved. As Solomon said, with every time there is a season, and with every season there comes changes in coaching practices…lol
But as we used to say on the run back to the high school…. May misfortune follow you all the days of your life, but never catch up!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I took these photos some years later, before they demolished the bridge. Enjoy the view.
Darin Patrick
shared with the comment: "Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Monon rail fans."
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US-421 Bridge had a lot more character back then.
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Note the road bridge behind it. And this image clearly shows that the truss was pin connected.
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| 1910 Postcard via BridgeHunter |
Tioga Road Bridge
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| 2013 Photo by Tony Dillon via BridgeHunter, cropped |
Note the railroad bridge behind it.
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| 1910c Postcard via Bridge Hunter |
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HistoricBridges
When this was restored in 2011 as a footbridge, it recreated the original ornamentation and railings. I added the label "bridgeRare" because Nathan says Whipple truss bridges are rare, especially multi-span bridges. |
Bonus
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Neil Riley commented on Darin's share
Would this be the same bridge? Pictures from when my father was a remc lineman that went to white county to assist after tornadoes in the early seventies.
Dennis DeBruler: Neil Riley Judging from the piers and girders, this looks like the TP&W/Pennsy bridge, https://maps.app.goo.gl/oaLyaqpvkZ9MFCRH9. |
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