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I picked up my brother Joe in Miami on my way to the Florida Keys.  We camped with my RV trailer on Big Pine Key.  We rode our bicycles to Key Deer Refuge and did see a deer.  They are smaller than other deer, being only under 30" at the shoulder.  We than rode to Bahia Honda Key to the State Park We hiked the trails, then looked at the remains of the original train bridge completed in 1912 over the deep Bahia Honda channel.  Henry Flagler built the railroad connecting Miami to Key West across the keys from 1905 to 1912.  In 1935 a hurricane destroyed 40 miles of track.  The state started replacing the railroad with a road - US 1. The bridge over the Bahia Honda Channel had steel truss spans, so the road was placed on top of the trusses making it a very high and narrow.  The new replacement bridge was not built until 1972.

the old road on top of the RR