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This may have been the highlight of the walking trip through Chicago on Monday evening. The Kinzie Street railroad bridge, essentially abandoned and permanently in its raised position since 2001. That was when the last business receiving freight traffic across it, the Chicago Sun-Times, moved its printing press out of downtown Chicago.



I wrote a bit more about the history of this bridge, once the longest and heaviest of its type in the world, on my Flickr page, which you can get to by clicking the picture. (Yes, my research consists primarily of looking at Wikipedia. It's a matter of time, you know?)

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My plans for this weekend include another photo trip with Devin. Not quite sure where yet, but most likely the power plant to try to get some steam-punk looking pictures for shows, since that seems to be what everybody's into. Plenty of good candidates there! I'm thinking about going into Chicago proper after that, and maybe looking at Lincoln Park, and going north to one of the current cemeteries. The plan is still formulating. Anyone interested in coming along?

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A couple people I've never heard of have sent me automated emails telling me I should join Facebook. The names are kind of spammy-sounding (and my apologies if you are, or know, one of those people; they just are reminiscent of those fake names you see in spam emails that always have two or three parts, plus an initial, like Thrombosis K Addlepated or something); Susan K Penrod Pilcher, and G Warren Olsen. Do other people get these? Are these real people?

A bunch of my family is on Facebook (as well as LJ), but I've never heard of these folks.

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Does anybody want to come visit me tomorrow?