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It's always fun to shoot railroad tracks vanishing into the distance. This stretch has a strange double track, for an added bonus. Does anyone know what its purpose is? The inside rails don't appear to be spiked to the ties the way the outside rails are, and their surface is rusted, so nothing is running on them. The two inner rails bend inward and taper to a point just behind the camera and on the other end of the trestle. Could they be part of an obsolete switch perhaps? Why would they be left in place though, and more or less loose as well. wouldn't that be a little dangerous?
The little round wall at the top of this singularly unimpressive rock, holds a memorial plaque that tells how this rock was a marker for a good place to ford the river, and since it was the biggest rock anyone could find hereabout, the European settlers built some cabins here in 1835, and named the county and the river "Rock". Still, I like the textures and colors, so in spite of the hokey history, I kind of like the image.
Two overlapping railway bridges cross the Rock River in Janesville, Wisconsin (USA).
