Subject: Monument on MXUS rail bridge<br/>
Date: Jun 30, 2003 @ 03:02<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1063352169">I have placed onto the web for your viewing pleasure at www.mexlist.com/mxus/ a<br/>
group of photos of the boundary monument on the international railway bridge<br/>
between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.<br/>
<br/>
This bridge was built in 1922. Curiously, all of these photos were taken from<br/>
dry land on the north bank of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo del Norte (as the two<br/>
nations differently call it).  The river has moved southward by accretion since<br/>
the boundary was demarcated on the bridge by the International Boundary<br/>
Commission (now the International Boundary and Water Commission). The boundary<br/>
has moved with the river, except on the bridge structure, where it remains<br/>
fixed. What about the land directly under the Mexican part of the bridge, where<br/>
my car was parked as I took these photos?  I theorized that&#39;s Mexico too, but<br/>
I&#39;m not sure how the IWBC feels about it.<br/>
<br/>
Any thoughts?<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>