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Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas
It's almost unbelievable that the bridge had been allowed to become an eyesore overgrown with vegetation and then resurrected into what we see in the second photo. I'm taking a wild guess the last photo would have been taken in the 1960s based upon the nature of the street lights seen between the arches.
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It's been overgrown like that at least since the late 1970s, the last I've seen it. Without knowing the Gill connection, it's a pretty plain thing to look at while screaming through at 45mph. At least the ivy covering kept off much of the inevitable graffiti. Unrestored, IMO this was a lot better-looking than a lot of other RR bridges in the basin.
As for age, I also think that last photo in the series is fairly recent. The streetlights beyond don't look like sodium vapor types and are way too bright for incandescents even with a time exposure. The restoration only started sometime after August 2011.