June 9, 2001.  Modesto, California.

"Close to 300 feet of the 1.636 foot structure were already engulfed in flames. Mumbling a few words about sick bastards getting a rush out of history being destroyed, I climbed back up to street level at the north end of the trestle to shoot an angle I had covered many times when trains were using the bridge. I figured I'd never get this view again."

photo by Ted Benson, copyright 2001 Modesto Bee, used by permission

Tidewater Southern Railway

Burning of the Tuolumne River Bridge