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Original - Metal truss railroad bridge over Kama River, near Perm.
Reason
Great picture with much EV showing a metal truss railroad bridge built by Lavr Proskuryakov near Perm over the Kama river. The photo was taken ca. 1912 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. This bridge is also part of the longest railway, the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Articles in which this image appears
Trans-Siberian Railway, Perm, Kama River, Eurasian Land Bridge
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others
Creator
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, uploaded by Eloquence

there should be a map that is first, not just a bridge on which you can't even see rails or a train.

There is a map in the infobox, but that's not my fault, that the first image is this bridge and the second a map. Why should there be rails/trains on it? Is it really necessary?

For the Eurasian Land Bridge, this is an even worse lead image, as the article is about 2 rail systems crossing Eurasia, and maps, not an image of a single bridge, should be in the lead.

I think this bridge fits to the lead, since there is no current map available. It is a GA, so anything seems fine. Regards.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 19:12, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Jujutacular talk 16:35, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]