The gargantuan Longtanhe Viaduct with 200 meter spans perched almost 200 meters above the valley floor. This was the world's 2nd largest viaduct for several years behind France's Millau Viaduct. China's own Chishi and Sanshuihe viaducts have recently pushed it further down to 4th place among all the world's viaducts but it is still an impressive site to behold. Image by John Morrison.
巨大的 龙潭河高架桥，包括几个每个200米的主跨，桥面距离地面近200米。这是世界第二高的多跨高架桥，仅次于着名的法国 米约大桥。中国在建的 赤石 和 三水河高架桥 将使龙潭河大桥退居第四名。不过这座桥仍然非常雄伟壮观。（有178米高的桥墩，周边植被非藏茂密）
巨大的 龙潭河高架桥
A pile of discarded bicycles and motorbikes near Langpingzhen. Image by Richard Scott.
榔坪镇附近一堆废弃的自行车和摩托车
The only cable stayed bridge on the G50 east of the Yangtze River is the impressive Tieluoping Bridge with a height of 209 meters and a main span of 322 meters. Image by Richard Scott.
G50沪渝高速上位于忠县以东唯一的斜拉桥——令人印象深刻的 铁罗坪大桥，有209米高，主跨322米
The Shuanghekou Bridge on the G50 is most impressive for its piers which are 163 meters tall. Image by Richard Scott.
双河口大桥 也是沪渝高速上令人印象深刻的桥梁之一，其桥墩高达163米。 （桥面高200余米，沪渝高速鄂西段200余公里内，桥面距离水面高200米以上的大桥有9座，接近中国以外所有国家高桥总和。在中国西南，这样的高速公路有多条）
A railway train crosses the Shuanghekou creek. The Yichang-Wanzhou Railway roughly parallels the G50 and is the most difficult stretch of railway line ever undertaken anywhere in the world. No other railway line outside China has more then one bridge over 100 meters high - the Wanzhou line has six. Of the 377 kilometer length, 288 kilometers are on bridges or in tunnels. Image by Richard Scott.
一列火车驶过双河口峡谷。宜万铁路（宜昌到万州）和沪渝高速平行，是全世界最难修建的铁路（没有之一）。中国以外没有一条铁路有超过一座百米以上高度桥梁——宜万铁路有6座。377公里铁路有288公里在隧道或桥上。
（译 注：宜万铁路最难的不是桥，是隧道穿过无数巨大的充水石灰岩溶洞，鄂西大山都是石灰岩中空的，别看外表雄伟，里面千疮百孔。有的洞内为支撑洞顶修起的钢筋 混凝土巨柱行列望之不逊Lord of the Rings中Moria地下大殿，比日本东京首都圈排水系统壮观的多；有的洞内为越过暗河修建大型洞中桥梁。因溶洞水量极大先后牺牲数十名工人。平行的沪 渝高速公路因选线较高避免了大部分溶洞，基本无工人死亡。此后中国在岩溶地区修建铁路吸取教训，选线宁高勿低，高海拔溶洞相对少，即使有洞大多是干的，山 底溶洞大多充满数百万甚至更多立方水！）
Siduhe in all its glory! With a deck nearly 500 meters high, this is far and away the world's highest suspension bridge. Image by Richard Scott.
四渡河大桥 全景！桥面距离水面近500米高，这座桥比世界其他高桥高很多 （但2015年后会被中国多座桥逐一超越）
The giant yellow towers support a Tacoma-sized span of 900 meters. Image by Richard Scott.
高大的黄色桥塔支撑着和塔科马大桥类似的900米主跨
The Morrisons check out the center of the bridge which has a steel truss locking the deck to the main cables. Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com
莫里森兄弟查看桥的中间扣
The road deck is approximately 24 meters wide with 26 meters between the center of the cables. Image by Richard Scott.
路面宽24米，缆索间宽度26米
下游一座小型电站建设中，2014年后桥下将形成一个小湖泊
