Subject: Re: Monument on MXUS rail bridge
Date: Jun 30, 2003 @ 16:29
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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> I have placed onto the web for your viewing pleasure atwww.mexlist.com/mxus/ a
> group of photos of the boundary monument on the internationalrailway bridge
> between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.taken from
>
> This bridge was built in 1922. Curiously, all of these photos were
> 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 byaccretion since
> the boundary was demarcated on the bridge by the InternationalBoundary
> Commission (now the International Boundary and Water Commission).The boundary
> has moved with the river, except on the bridge structure, where itremains
> fixed. What about the land directly under the Mexican part of thebridge, where
> my car was parked as I took these photos? I theorized that'sMexico too, but
> I'm not sure how the IWBC feels about it.A while ago, I found out that on BENL (river Meuse) a similar thing
>
> Any thoughts?