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| Professor Ray of Moss Point, MS, uses the term "micro-touring", which to him means really exploring and learning about a area that can be thoroughly investigated on a day's ride. I have learned, for me, that area has to be very, very limited in size. I spent almost 3 hours looking for one thing in an area that was less than 3 square miles, like I have any judgement of size. |
| The "thing" was really a "way". I wanted to get to this bridge so I could get some really good pictures of it, walk it, and possibly fall throgh it. Whatever, I wanted to get to it.. |
| The view of the unreachable bridge and approaches brought me to Sun, La. Sun is just north of the Bogue Chitto, the pictured ruver. Sun is on the four laned raceway, La.21, between Bush and Bogalusa. |
| Sun is also the location of Pearl Canal Lock Number 2, I think, anyway, one of them. I turned off of La.21 onto La.16, one of La's prettier roads, and looked for signs of the old railroad right of way going through town. I thought it might be a road, now, that would lead to the bridge, No such luck, though later investigation shows one that might be. I saw Silica Rd at the Sun Civic Center and decided to give it a try. I headed south out of town. |
| There were some rails. They must have been a spur to the sand pit. I felt "warm". Well warmer, if that was possible. After all, this is Louisiana and the sky isn't blue for a reason. We live in a heated cloud, somewhat like Venus. |
| The road ended at private property. What's new? But I did get to see yet another beautiful sand pit lake. When denied, you have to put on the rose colored glasses. |
| I back tracked, punny, and couldn't find any way in. The hump down the power line below is the raised rail bed, I was not going to walk the quarter mile through that stuff, there was no trail I still had a little sense left. |
| By chance I learned that the railroad company was the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad. I don't know if it contributed to the Tammany Trace, Rails to Trails program. Meaux Research. Completely burning myself out on this one, I headed north. To heck with micro whatever. It's enough to drive you crazy spinning in circles. I think the heat finally got to me or I'm senile. |
| Silica road |
| Civic Center |
| Train Bridge |
| Sand Pit Lake |
| Attempts to find the right of way. |
| To Folsom |
| To Covington |
| To Slidell |
| The Civic Center was obviously an old church. I almost went in. |
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