Subject: Re: Monument on MXUS rail bridge
Date: Jun 30, 2003 @ 16:29
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
Prev    Post in Topic    Next [All Posts]
Prev    Post in Time    Next


--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> I have placed onto the web for your viewing pleasure at
www.mexlist.com/mxus/ a
> group of photos of the boundary monument on the international
railway bridge
> between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.
>
> This bridge was built in 1922. Curiously, all of these photos were
taken from
> dry land on the north bank of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo del Norte
(as the two
> nations differently call it). The river has moved southward by
accretion since
> the boundary was demarcated on the bridge by the International
Boundary
> Commission (now the International Boundary and Water Commission).
The boundary
> has moved with the river, except on the bridge structure, where it
remains
> fixed. What about the land directly under the Mexican part of the
bridge, where
> my car was parked as I took these photos? I theorized that's
Mexico too, but
> I'm not sure how the IWBC feels about it.
>
> Any thoughts?

A while ago, I found out that on BENL (river Meuse) a similar thing
occurs. See msg. 4653.

Peter S.