Gorge Bridge North View
by Britt Runyon
Title
Gorge Bridge North View
Artist
Britt Runyon
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
This image was taken as I stood on the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge over the Rio Grande as Highway 68 heads West out of Taos, New Mexico. The clouds were big and puffy that day with lots of blue sky. The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge is one of New Mexico's historical landmarks that begs to be photographed. The bridge is a three-span steel continuous-deck-truss structure with a concrete-filled steel-grid deck. The span is 1,280 feet; two 300-foot-long approach spans with a 600-foot-long main center span. In 1966 the American Institute of Steel Construction awarded the bridge Most Beautiful Steel Bridge in the Long Span category. The bridge is located within the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument of New Mexico.
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July 12th, 2015
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