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crazyflights
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 Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 7:43 am Post subject: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freeburg |
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I may have missed this searching thru all the threads on this site. This is well worth checking out. I have been several times over the years. Not much for access on the Belle side now since they closed the road going closer to it. But still very accessbile on the Freeburg side. My friend and I are planning on Rapelling off of it someday. 
If anyone has any stories they want to add or have heard let me know.
I have heard of people jumping off of this bridge into the Gasconade, I heard 1 got stuck in the mud in the bottom of the river and drowned, but also heard someone has made it. I think you're crazy if you jump off.
This is an old photo of the bridge.
Some details:
Date Built: 1902 by AJ Turlock bridge builders of Kansas
The Rock Island Line across Missouri was a late comer to the field of railroads that served as their competition like the Missouri Pacific, the MKT, the Frisco etc. The bridge is near Freeburg and Belle, Missouri. The Rock Island's last run over the bridge was a freight in 1980. It remains abandoned, but several uses for the route have been considered over the years. I believe that AMEREN-UE, a commercial power company owns the route today. The rails are still intact on the bridges roadbed.
N 38° 17.978 W 091° 52.018
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Kit
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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You would make it if you were a zombie.
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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no cause id shoot him if he were a zoombie
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crazyflights
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 1:53 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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| What are you all talking about LOL |
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Kit
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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jumping off the bridge of course 
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crazyflights
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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| Ah OK , yea would be crazy |
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Kit
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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I could classify a zombie as crazy. Yes.
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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and a crazy zombie needs to be shot
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Kit
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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+1
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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| crazyflights wrote: | | What are you all talking about LOL |
Haha Sorry new guy, my friends can be vague with their inside jokes. Check out the "other" forum.
Specifically this thread:
http://www.undergroundozarks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7866
Post Scriptum: Welcome aboard sir!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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Indeed sir, very nice bridge, and welcome aboard.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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IN THE WORDS OF PANIC.... AHOY
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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| Twail Wetard wrote: | | IN THE WORDS OF PANIC.... AHOY |
Hey, that's my greeting! |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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I prefer the Mr. Burns greeting of: Ahoy Hoy!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: Gascondy Train Bridge. Connects Belle side with Freebur |
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So I went to the bridge today., it is bad Ass and Sooo freaking long. I only walked half way across it and it was a distance. It doesn't just cross the river but also a huge field.
Thanks for posting its a trip walking across it
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