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Lapeer County used to have some of the most noteworthy railroad-related bridges in Michigan, one being the nationally significant Genesee Road Bridge, the other being the Summers Road Bridge through plate girder, a rare (for Michigan) highway plate girder which unfortunately was demolished before HistoricBridges.org was started.
The Columbiaville Bridge is not particularly significant, and while a truss bridge would look nicer and have more value, for Michigan the scene in Columbiaville on the Flint River is a scenic one, and this long-abandoned bridge adds to the scene, telling a tale of a time when trains rolled through Columbiaville.
In 2007, the bridge is fenced off and rusting, but a new sign near the rail line suggested this might become a rail-trail. A revisit to the bridge in 2022 confirmed that this bridge has indeed been turned into a rail-trail bridge and has been repainted grey, which is noteworthy because rails-to-trails groups do not always do restoration work on the historic bridges their trails cross over.
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