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This is not a Hercules, most likely a 707 in cargo configuration.

Burnett Bridge is a heritage-listed road bridge crossing the Burnett River from Quay Street, Bundaberg Central to Perry Street, Bundaberg North in Bundaberg, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Alfred Barton Brady and built in 1900. It is also known as Burnett River Traffic Bridge. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. In the 1870s the first bridges were built as ferries could no longer cope with increasing traffic across the River. It was in the 1880s, however, with the establishment of the sugar industry in the region, that Bundaberg boomed. Handsome and substantial masonry buildings began to rise in the city as evidence of its growing importance and prosperity. The first bridges were timber and became weakened by heavy traffic. Two more substantial metal replacements, not only capable of taking heavier loads but of matching the general upgrading of Bundaberg's commercial center were planned. The smaller of the two, over Bundaberg Creek, a tributary of the Burnett River and the eastern boundary of the city, was opened in December 1899 and is known as the Kennedy Bridge. When it was opened the Burnett Bridge was the fifth-longest metal truss bridge in Australia. Although the river had been bridged by the Burnett railway bridge in 1891, the traffic bridge was viewed by the public as being of great importance for the continuing progress of Bundaberg. Burnett Bridge joins Quay Street, Bundaberg with Perry Street, North Bundaberg, across the Burnett River. It is 412 meters (1,352 ft) in length and has eight 51.9 long spans with cylindrical piers and concrete abutments. The bridge carries a 7.3 meters (24 ft) roadway and a footpath. The road is on transverse metal troughing spanning between the lower chords of hog-back lattice trusses. The bridge has aesthetic appeal and is an important landmark in the city. The spans of the bridge are supported by pairs of piers in the form of Tuscan order columns with circular cross-bracing between them producing a striking effect. It is an important example of its type and combines technical quality with aesthetic appeal, making a substantial contribution to the Bundaberg townscape. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnett_Bridge

There is one final way the Hornibrook Highway lives on and that is as part of the community’s intangible heritage – in story, memory, and identity. Popular poet and former Redcliffe resident, Rupert McCall, alludes to this symbiosis between the bridge as a physical site and as a site of enduring cultural meaning in his verse, The Boy on the Bridge Returns (1997): The city doesn’t know me when the Hornibrook’s below me, It’s a homely kind of journey that I’ve come to understand, It’s an ocean breeze that cleanses something stressful from my lenses, My wheels are heading north towards Peninsulated land. The Bay lies like a mirror – non-reflective of its terror, And the blue horizon meets it where the tower comes to view Beneath a seagull-studded ceiling – it conveys a special feeling, And I wonder in my wildest dreams if Oxley felt it too. While the bridge itself is now gone, the Art Deco “tower” still “comes to view” on the journey from Brisbane to Redcliffe, standing as a tribute to local history, the Hornibrook legend, and the flourishing of modernity in Queensland in the early twentieth century. Source: queenslanddecoproject.com/2015/10/04/hornibrook-highway/