A pair of Camp Chase RR switchers crossing the Darby Creek trestle. Camp Chase diesels work around Central Ohio. This pair is heading to the grain silos in Columbus.
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Beautiful low-angle photos of nice-looking equipment - on a deck girder on masonry piers.
No way is that a `trestle.’ If that’s what the locals call it, give them a civil engineering text with the, “Definitions of bridge types,” page bookmarked.
A half-century ago, Trains printed a photo article on the Kiso Forest Railway (which with I am rather familiar) in which author’s comment and captions referred to every bridge as a, “Trestle.” Most were deck girders on masonry piers. one was a steel arch(!)
There were no photos of the temporary branches to timber-cutting sides. Instead of earthworks they consisted of low trestles made of slash picked off the forest floor, a lot of it with the bark still on…
Chuck