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From my trip down to Chicago yesterday with posicat and Devin, a friend of my brother's.

This is looking north along the east side of the Canal Street railroad bridge, with another Chicago landmark in the background.



What do you think? Do you like the black and white? Maybe I should have left it color? Grayscale seems to suit such an industrial structure, of such venerability.

When it was completed in 1915, this bridge had the heaviest vertically lifted movable span in the country. As the couple of railroad personnel said when we bumped into them while I was taking pictures and generally gaping, this bridge is the only one of its kind in Chicago. It takes a lot of maintenance and work to keep it up.

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I haven't been on LJ or online much since Wednesday. I had Thursday and Friday off, and my weekend's been happily full, despite the odd support call or two. Today, we're heading out to my grandparents' house for the extended family gathering. I'm bringing my portable hard drive to show off all my new pictures from the last several months. Whee!

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Another view of the east side of the Canal Street railroad bridge.



This structure is so big that it looks somehow unreal from a vantage point at its base, especially looking up at one of the end towers. I've seen a lot of gigantic structures on this scale since I started doing a lot of urbex, and it's one of my favorite experiences. Seeing something so big my brain doesn't have a reference point to make sense of the size in relation to a man-made structure. A little mental (not to mention physical!) vertigo from time to time is good for the soul.

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More pictures from this weekend as I get to them.