Boeing B-17 on an overpass

[Lyon Wonder]

I found this pic on reddit r/WWIIplanes of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress on what appears to be on a bridge that's striped for one-way traffic. 



My guess is this bridge is part of a 4 lane divided freeway or expressway and the B-17 was being moved to a museum or somewhere.  What's unusual is that the B-17's wings were not removed from the fuselage prior to transport and I guess they thought the wings wouldn't cause problems with opposing traffic through the highway's medium.

[lepidopteran]

That's OH-444 in Fairborn, OH, where it crosses the Mad River and half-interchanges with Springfield St.  They were moving the aircraft to the new location of (what's now called) the National Museum of the USAF.  The bridge it's on still exists, though the triple parapets were replaced with Jersey-type barriers some 40 years ago.

[kkt]

Great photo, thanks for posting

[index]

That's OH-444 in Fairborn, OH, where it crosses the Mad River and half-interchanges with Springfield St.  They were moving the aircraft to the new location of (what's now called) the National Museum of the USAF.  The bridge it's on still exists, though the triple parapets were replaced with Jersey-type barriers some 40 years ago.

I wonder, why did that style of guardrail ever fall out of favor? They seem to be more common on older stuff like that.