La Salle Causeway

The La Salle Causeway lift bridge was a 100 year old bridge in Kingston, Ontario. When I was 11 or 12 I spent many hours at the bridge, drawing it, hanging out with the bridgemaster, and learning how this giant machine worked. This bridge helped inspire a lifetime of engineering. A couple of years ago on a visit to Kingston I took this video of it opening. At the time nobody knew that its days…