next comes an extra cool card...not only coz it is railway related..the view is
just jaw-dropping!
The Crooked River High
Bridge is a steel arch bridge that spans the Crooked River gorge in Oregon,
which is a 150 m deep gorge located around Warm Springs and Smith Rock State
Park
. The bridge is 141 metres long with a main span of 100m. The deck is 90
m above the canyon floor. The bridge was eventually unable to keep up with the
growing traffic demands of U.S. Highway 97, and was replaced by the wider Rex T.
Barber Veterans Memorial Bridge. The old bridge is open to pedestrians. Too bad,
coz it is really cool.
I remember when I was very little and i would go with
my grandparents on a train visiting some relatives to Serbia...there was this
bridge I ALWAYS dreaded somewhere en route....you could have simply seen the
river in between the rails and you could feel how the rails themselves were all
shaking under the weight of the train...i always had the feeling of 'now we're
gonna crash..now we're gonna crash'...amazingly enough, the bridge did withstood
all that burden..i guess nowadays it is a new modern one so (un)fortunately, you
can't have an experience of that kind again :)
two stamps are affixed
on the card. The top one was issued this year in a set of 5 Birds-of-prey stamps
and it portrays the Northern Harrier. The other stamp is a definitive issued in
2011, representing George Washington...well, you all know who he is :)
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