This long stretch of rusty fasteners caught my eye while poking around on another of Bismarck-Mandan’s best kept secrets: a bridge to nowhere.

This bridge sits along the walking/bike path by Hay Creek on the east end of town. Apparently it used to carry rail traffic but there are no longer any train tracks leading to it from either end. The rails have been removed from the bridge and so have any structures connecting it to anything, but someone has propped long boards up to provide pedestrian access to it for the brave.

One other rusty nut that I have in my photo collection is this one on the old Northern Pacific railroad bridge across the Missouri. While taking photos of the flood last year I looked up and saw this, and I figured it was a neat photo to grab for later. Here it goes.

I’ve got some other interesting fastener photos around here somewhere, perhaps I’ll cobble together some for a future post.