The Bridges of Carillon Park

You don't really realize it while you are walking around Carillon Park, but there are quite a few historic bridges in this park.  They sort of get lost to the main points of interest and get treated more like a way to get from one point of interest to another.  I've included a few bridges here...

This lightweight steel truss bridge, below, is from 1881 and was designed and built by the Columbia Bridge Works of Dayton.  The building straight ahead is the Transportation Center which is really a locomotive roundhouse.  There are tracks that allow display trains to move in and out of the Transportation Center.  

It is incredibly difficult to see in this photo, below, but, if you look closely, you'll be able to pick out Lukey standing on the other end of this bridge capturing a photo of me!  

Now we are walking underneath the Columbia Bridge Works lightweight steel truss bridge...  

This last photo isn't of any historic bridge but it is a bit of bridgework nonetheless so I included it here in this blog entry.  This was the hillside where they have long tube slides.  There are some video clips of Lukey and Kenzie on the slides in this blog entry in the video at the bottom of the page.