At the Hell Gate Bridge.

[lionkingcmsl]

First up, a video showing the central portion of the south abutment.
The area in the video is about the size of a tennis court and about ten stories tall. I'm already one story above ground leve when I shot this video. You can see the stairs leading to the street level next to the stairs leading up.

Next up is track side at Hell Gate. You have to climb another two stories, via a very smalll diameter spiral staircase, after crossing the catwalks to get to this level.

I then had to climb another two stories to get to the radio repeater I was working on. :=/

Comments

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

*poke* You rang? Both times were when I was not able to take a call.

-=TK

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

He rang you too? Silly lion.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Nah, not silly at all. Just bad timing.

-=TK

[lowen-kind.livejournal.com]

Well, at least TK is in the same hemisphere and only a 3 hour time difference. :=3

And I'm not silly, it's when I get bored I like to talk. :=3

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Is this where you were headed when you rang?

[lowen-kind.livejournal.com]

If I said I was going to Hell Gate, then yes. :=3

[kamiten.livejournal.com]

neat bridge!

[lowen-kind.livejournal.com]

Should be, it's ours (Amtrak's) after all. :=3

This is the major span you cross, in NYC, when coming from New England into NYPS.

[kamiten.livejournal.com]

I gathered as much, but I never really get out of Boston on work related trips anyway. :)

[rrwolf.livejournal.com]

neat behind the scenes video.

The bridges are neat places especially up on top, except in bad weather. I've been up on the towers of a few high span draws to work an antennas.

Becareful what you post to youtube.