This is a railroad bridge over the Sandy Creek that empties into the Mississippi River to the west, south of the small village of Bagley in Grant County (southwestern Wisconsin). This slough area floods and drains almost every year. The Burlington Northern rail line was submerged during flooding last year. Here’s a BN engine pulling a line of mounted – double statcked shipping containers – heading south.
This photograph was taken on a 4×5 view camera onto 120 roll film loaded in a 6×17 film holder/reel. This film loaded was Rollei Retro 400.
This image was exposed on the same Rollei Retro 400. This bridge spans the Muddy Creek, several miles south of the Sandy Creek bridge shown above. There was maintenance work being done on one of the two tracks at the time. I was hoping to catch a train crossing the bridge and the roar approaching from the north got my attention, but there wasn’t a train after all.