You see trains no longer use this bridge. The near end In fact no longer even has tracks.
I wonder if I could buy this bridge? Enclose it, and make a 200 or 300 yard, indoor, rifle range.
What a great shooting club that would make. I would add modern, automatic, target systems. Remote monitors with close up views of the targets. It's big enough it could be multi-leveled, like driving ranges! That bridge is strong enough to hold tons of sand for a backstop and armor the range itself!
A restaurant with an observation level! A sweet gun shop!
--Wife! Get the Mayor of Pittsburgh on the phone! Stat!
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Traffic would suck.
MSJ makes a valid point.
Aside from that, I look at BBHIS and think similar thoughts: high ceiling (less noise reflection), 650' indoor length, 350' width, block walls... It would be eminently possible and not terribly difficult to put in a dozen 200-yard lanes, a couple dozen 50-yard lanes, and a four-sides shoot-house to something resembling a real scale. Shoot house could even be two stories if you wanted...
Look around your town. There has to be an empty big-box store somewhere that would allow you to do some or all of these things!
Rather than a Railroad Bridge, I would rather have a Unused Railroad Tunnel. Target Range AND "Tornado/Zed Outbreak" Shelter all in one. Of course, I would only allow a few people to use it, so it wouldn't be a Commercial Range, but the idea of waking up, having a cup of Java, and strolling over to check out the loads for my Barrett while in my PJ's, ah Heaven!
I was trying to be funny before.
However, A bridge like that might have some sway to it, and that could be detrimental to accuracy. (I could be wrong.)
Hate to bust your bubble, but I sat on the deck Sunday of NRA convention and watched a train pass by. It was really cool to watch, because I wasn't in a car waiting for it to pass.
Oh the Humanity! Get the mayor on the phone!!
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