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This tree is amazing; my pics don't do it justice. It just absolutely dominates this street. It's best in Fall, when it's in all it's autumnal glory. 

You have to know your bridges here for this one. 

Underneath Adelaide. Looking the other direction from a block and a half east of where I was in this. Basically, we're staring at each other.

symphonicpoet wrote:Underneath Adelaide. Looking the other direction from a block and a half east of where I was in this. Basically, we're staring at each other.

Yep.

We really would be in each others pictures, though kind of behind pillars. And you're right, it's an impressive spot. Okay then . . . 

Since we're on the subject of bridges, where's this one?

symphonicpoet wrote:We really would be in each others pictures, though kind of behind pillars. And you're right, it's an impressive spot. Okay then . . . 

Since we're on the subject of bridges, where's this one?

Is it the River City Bridge. The 4 smoke stacks act as a hint but I’m not sure.

chriss752 wrote:

symphonicpoet wrote:We really would be in each others pictures, though kind of behind pillars. And you're right, it's an impressive spot. Okay then . . . 

Since we're on the subject of bridges, where's this one?

Is it the River City Bridge. The 4 smoke stacks act as a hint but I’m not sure.

It is not the River City Bridge. Good eye to catch the stacks, but . . . they could be a little misleading. It's a rather old picture. I thought it was mostly the same. I wasn't looking closely enough at the background. The bridge is still the same. But . . . not so much other things. We had more smokestacks once.

framer wrote:

Is it your backyard?

I can give hints on the bridge, if that's desired.

Yes. Let's skip my silliness and go back to the bridge. (Not my backyard, just something that seemed funny last night after a few beers)

Is the back yard photo in the Grove? I think we can figure this out, folks. 

^It's Bevo.

Okay, the bridge . . . 

This is from the top of the same bridge, albeit looking in a different direction.

Update: Before and after pics. They've posted signs all along the trail, asking folks to keep off. I've always assumed this was a runner's trail, but who knows. 

It may have been perpetuated by runners but it definitely started because that's the central aisle during special events such as the Symphony and Art Hill movies. I'm guessing they'll change the aisle layout a bit this year to prevent this. 

Okay, I completely forgot about this. Please forgive. New hint time . . .

The railroad line on this bridge goes directly past the bridge in the picture. In fact, it's visible in the second picture. I'm asking about the road bridge that goes over all the railroad tracks, mind.


So again, here's the road bridge I'm asking about from underneath . . .



And here's a shot of the railroad lines coming off the big bridge taken from the bridge I'm asking about. The curving line in the background comes off the big bridge. The line in the foreground with the train on it is the same line you see going under the bridge in the picture above.



Opposite side of the bridge, and the train is going the other way, but you get the idea. That's about the best hint I think I can give without just naming the sucker. If nobody gets it by, let's say Thursday, just feel free to start a new one and I'll simply tell what bridge it was.

^Nope. There are things named McKinley nearby, but they don't cross that particular UCB*. Though one of them almost kind of did at one time. Not under that name, but . . . sort of.

*UCB is an engineering term for "Ugly Concrete Brirge"

Broadway Bridge in Venice over the TRRA Yard. I knew those stacks, but my brain is so City centric I couldn't make the leap across the River.

MattnSTL wrote: Broadway Bridge in Venice over the TRRA Yard. I knew those stacks, but my brain is so City centric I couldn't make the leap across the River.

Ding ding ding! Broadway bridge in Venice over the north leads to TRRA's Madison yard. (I'm not at all sure any of that yard is actually in Madison, but . . . there you have it.) The stacks were the now vanished Venice power plant.

Okay. I blew it. :"> It wasn't in St. Louis. But, you know, if it hadn't been so dang hazy that day maybe you could have seen something in St. Louis from there. Almost certainly, if I'd been anywhere but the bottom of a ditch surrounded by stuff.