Just got home from a trip back to Texas for the holidays and thought I’d share some pics and video of the bridges over the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, MS. Since moving out to Georgia, I must have driving over the river this bridge 25+ times now and while it isn’t the most exciting blog post ever I still think it is a solid piece of engineering.
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Once you get under the steel cantilever section you can see that it is wide as it spans the nearly 900 feet wide river.
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Off to the left is the “old” Vicksburg Bridge that opened in 1930.
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