06/02/2026
✨️📸🚂🚃 When I was growing up, the Kinzu Bridge was always a fun place to visit and watch the train roll across the trestle, since it was only a short distance from our family's camp in the area.
Walking across this magnificent bridge, being high up above the valley it once spanned, made me wonder as a kid how they built it.
When the wind was blowing just right on a warm summer weekend, we could hear the train blowing its whistle down through the valley while sitting around the campfire. I really wish time could rewind so I could go back and capture the movements across this once-magnificent structure with the camera and knowledge I have today.
In 2003, a tornado ripped through the valley for a long distance, touching down in multiple locations across the countryside, one of which was just up the road from our camp. 🌩🌪⚡️
Now visitors can see the carnage of twisted steel that once stood high and mighty for the Erie Railroad, later the Knox and Kane Railroad. Though a majority of the bridge was knocked out, a good portion of it still stands as a skywalk and overlook for tourists to walk out and see the valley and beautiful landscape it once crossed.
Down for repairs at the current time, one can still go and see a few sights from the overlook just down from the museum building. Reconstruction of the walkway with new decking is underway, along with stabilizing and repainting of the metal framework. Tourists may be able to take the walk across this bridge again in the next few years once the work is completed. 🏗🧱
