It's amazing how wide this river got in the 2-300 miles downstream
And how the flood levels vary so much.
The numbers on the marker to the right range from 40 to 55 feet.
It seemed backwards (to us) until we realized that it measured the height to the bottom of the bridge, not the depth of the water.
"just say'n"
This train bridge was folded up to the edge of the water.
The train can't cross the river now.
After we passed, the train bridge pivoted back to complete the bridge.
Quite the grain elevator, especially when you think of the sequence:
1. Farmer combines his grain, and trucks to local town grain elevator.
2. Grain elevator puts it in rail road cars and ships to the large one that you see here.
3. Then it is loaded on barges and shipped down the Mississippi, eventually ending up in world wide destinations.
Scenes along the river
Quite a few homeless solutions.
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