Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60

At 502 meters long, the F60 overburden conveyor bridge is the giant you can actually walk on. It stands about 80 meters high and takes its name from its 60-meter cutting height, the depth of soil it could strip away above the lignite seams. It worked only from March 1991 to June 1992 before its mine closed, and it now stands at a visitor mine near Lichterfeld in eastern Germany. The walk across it takes about 90 minutes and climbs to a viewing point 74 meters above the ground. After dark, light and sound installations turn the steelwork into a night show.