a tour of the gulch

i had seen parts of the triangle of railroad lines around which the city developed, but never walked from one end to the other --- a young architect, jeff morrison, led the tour and was a little surprised at the 75 people that showed up to take it --- it so irritates me that the state still has the zero milepost closed up in a stupid little building where it can barely be seen ---

i have to figure out what this bit of stone work was part of

this view north from the tracks at cone street still gives a sense of the change in grade between marietta street and the tracks that gave rise to calling the railroad corridor "the gulch"

they'll be demolishing the spring street viaduct sooner or later --- it's in purty rough shape but still sound enough for traffic, just not for the big-ass trucks and what not for which the d.o.t. likes to build

the yellow wall covers giant steel buttresses for the railroad tracks that run beneath the aren

a whole lot of parking-lot waste land down in there