'D Red Bridge' - Historically - Relevant Relic or Rubbish

[~Vēġó~]

oh gooooood dat bridge was ah bullin landmark.....there goes a special reminder of fabulous times of past

[MG Man]

So why they moving the bridge in the first place?
I find it looks nice right there.

it's a vile conspiracy between the evil forces of gravity and corrosion

[Firewall]

Built in 1881? that bridge last 129 years, Caroni one couldn't last 2 months properly.........


old thing really is the best yes

[FriendlyFire]

I wonder if they intend to have the brige taken down and all the scrap metal moved away in the time frame indicated.

The movement of that stuff may create an additional road hazzard either north of the bridge or south of the bridge.

Any ideas on where they are likely to go or the routes they may take?

[xtech]

is Eric Williams fault..........

[W2J]

where is this? I never see it before

[~Vēġó~]

dais near mikkane hotel....yuh never gone dey and 8v|| before?

good times *sniff*

[nismotrinidappa]

thanks for dah pics guise!

[Dj_Bee]

I wonder if they intend to have the brige taken down and all the scrap metal moved away in the time frame indicated.

The movement of that stuff may create an additional road hazzard either north of the bridge or south of the bridge.

Any ideas on where they are likely to go or the routes they may take?

To move that bridge isnt that easy....
thay gonna use a centipede trailer (cometto trailer), and lift it from where it's lying and then the trailer is going to have to make a 90 degree turn and t would carry it up to the clear area going up the hill....where it wil be chopped up....

its harder done thane said eh

[FriendlyFire]

For those who may not know this landmark. The Red Bridge is located on the Southern Main Road, Pointe-a-Pierre just north of the refinery and south of St. Margarets' Village, Claxton Bay.

It may have been the only place where a train passed over a major roadway in Trinidad. The disruption moving it would have caused may have been one of the reasons it wasn't moved when trains stopped passing there in 1958 because of errosion along the route where the train tracks passed along the sea coast in the Pointe-a-Pierre, Claxton Bay area.

If you drive along the Southern Main Road and up Beaumont Hill you will still see the sign for Station Road near the St. Peters RC Church. That's where the old train station was. The Pointe-a-Pierre Gov't Primary School is still on that road.

[tr1ad]

was there taking some pics, the crane etc ready to go, just waiting on the time

[EL JEFE]

was there taking some pics, the crane etc ready to go, just waiting on the time

Stop driving so hard when you on the Marabella Main Road

[nismotrinidappa]

bridge in the video....*sniff*

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[zcarz]

^They are removing the bridge because of severe corrosion to its structural identity.

[equipped2ripp]

[xtech]

should put that on a barge a send it up to Chaguramas...............

[SR20VE-T]

That video even show you how the interchange in South was before yes, wow.

[2 d Max Auto]

equipped2ripp, thanks for the pics man............really wish it didn't have that ministry of works banner in the middle spoiling it

[FriendlyFire]

To give a better perspective on this bridge built in 1881

1881 is the year Sitting Bull surrendered, it is the year Billy the Kid was killed, it is the year of the shoot out at the OK Corral with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Clanton in Tombstone in Arizona.

1881 is also the year the Canboulay Riots occurred that lead to the start of our Carnival celebrations. This bridge was built just 43 years after slavery was ended and 36 years after indentured laborers began to arrive.

[RBphoto]

hmm, piece of history going there.

Yep, that's what I was thinking, I hope our 2nr photo tek outers get some pics before it goes.........

procrastination sucks.....every time I pass I always think 'hmm............ah should take a pic'

And I just start to photograph old canefield memorabilia :X Talking about that, anyone seeing any of the old cane cars that the locomotives used to pull? I have been scouring the old train track routes looking for them, or even a piece of rail, but I ain't even seeing the tracks now.

[wagonrunner]

And I just start to photograph old canefield memorabilia :X Talking about that, anyone seeing any of the old cane cars that the locomotives used to pull? I have been scouring the old train track routes looking for them, or even a piece of rail, but I ain't even seeing the tracks now.

The ones along the M2 ring road from st. madeline to friendship, and along the St. Madeline field were removed already?

[2 d Max Auto]

hmm, piece of history going there.

Yep, that's what I was thinking, I hope our 2nr photo tek outers get some pics before it goes.........

procrastination sucks.....every time I pass I always think 'hmm............ah should take a pic'

And I just start to photograph old canefield memorabilia :X Talking about that, anyone seeing any of the old cane cars that the locomotives used to pull? I have been scouring the old train track routes looking for them, or even a piece of rail, but I ain't even seeing the tracks now.

Ent it have some of these tracks along the back road between Golconda and Debe?, try there

[Maserati]

And I just start to photograph old canefield memorabilia :X Talking about that, anyone seeing any of the old cane cars that the locomotives used to pull? I have been scouring the old train track routes looking for them, or even a piece of rail, but I ain't even seeing the tracks now.

The ones along the M2 ring road from st. madeline to friendship, and along the St. Madeline field were removed already?

think I have some very old pics. of these from many years back when the train still use to run.
wonder what ever happened to the locomotives

[gunsmoke]

i hear somebody say this bridge was their life, wdmc.

we need more highways in trini

[RBphoto]

And I just start to photograph old canefield memorabilia :X Talking about that, anyone seeing any of the old cane cars that the locomotives used to pull? I have been scouring the old train track routes looking for them, or even a piece of rail, but I ain't even seeing the tracks now.

The ones along the M2 ring road from st. madeline to friendship, and along the St. Madeline field were removed already?

Yup, first place I looked actually.

[equipped2ripp]

I knew in St. Madeline had, but I'm sure those scrap iron people stole it years ago...

There should be in Penal as well...

[ingalook]

To give a better perspective on this bridge built in 1881

1881 is the year Sitting Bull surrendered, it is the year Billy the Kid was killed, it is the year of the shoot out at the OK Corral with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Clanton in Tombstone in Arizona.

1881 is also the year the Canboulay Riots occurred that lead to the start of our Carnival celebrations. This bridge was built just 43 years after slavery was ended and 36 years after indentured laborers began to arrive.

Nice info... to me it didn't look like it was in danger of falling down... they could have spent half the money they spending to move it to fix it up and make it a tourist attraction... real history there boy

[equipped2ripp]

That's what they should have done... fix it up, recoat it and make it a tourist attraction... but then again, check who get the job to remove it right...

the MP for P-A-P should have made the initiative to get this done... but then again, check who's the MP

[eliteauto]

Tourist attraction seriously the bridge there since 1881 how many tourists visited? Prior to it's removal anyone even paid attention to it or everyone just assumed it was always there? Not everything old should be saved

[wagonrunner]

Not everything old should be saved