Locate Former Bridge Site

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Chicago's Abandoned Racetrack Nobody Knows About - Inside Forgotten Meadowdale Raceway

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Locate the site of the former bridge. According to historical accounts, this bridge was not present during the raceway's operational period but was built after the track was repurposed. However, there was a paved section that crossed a creek here, which was removed around 1972 to prevent illegal joyrides. Observe the current wooden bridge and imagine the original track's configuration.

Goal: Identify the location of a former track feature, a bridge or paved crossing.

Tools and materials

Aerial imagery Google Earth — Visualizing the track's layout and changes over time

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I thought it was like a kind of like a it was raised up a little bit not as high no it um it was pav supp to edit that out I was wrong yeah um and there was water that runs through here see it mhm Ian don't see too much now but anyway so it was starting to wash out and so they like kind of collapsed the ground here oh so the track followed the the it kept going down all the way down and then and then it HED back up wow I did not know that on track video number 11 behind so can you see up there where the

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