You guys know I love Bridges! It can be any Bridge!
Even though the bridge does not support railroad tracks but the railroad is there.
I’ll start, …Is this a Trestle or what?
Castle Rock Minnesota and if you blink you’ll miss it[:P]
After I drove under it I had to pull over to take a picture because that’s how I roll[:P]
TF
The original Stoney Creek Bridge was a wooden trestle, here you can see the iron bridge that will replace it taking shape.
That is really cool Brent!
I’ve always appreciated the new steel one marked down as one of my favorite Bridges.
Didn’t know the history behind it until now and I thank you for posting the original wood one[:P][Y]
The only word for it is magnificent
TF
I see a shed or two in the background with the fallen trees like there’s some logging going on there.
Maybe you can elaborate on that if you know about it? If not that giant old wooden trestle is beautiful enough for me[Y]
TF
One of my nephews lives in Pennsylvania, and there are a lot of abandioned rail lines that have been converted into walking and bike trails. The picture at the top resembles some of what he has posted on Facebook from his bike rides. A couple of trails even include tunnels, one long one on a curve; from the middle, you can not see either entrance.
I suspect that is lodging for the crew. The rail line goes right along there.
At the loops.
You can see where the rail line went up the side valleys to gain elevation, it was trestle after trestle.
Lots of remnants from the CPRs original 1880s line through the Rockies and Selkirks still exist. Far beneath this spot (190 metres) are the 8km long Connaught tunnel built-in 1916 and at 290 metres depth the 14.6km Mount MacDonald tunnel built-in 1988.
The first image shows the central Howe Truss at the base of the Kinsol Trestle over the Koksilah River (Coke-SIGH-La). This massive truss spans at least 60 feet, and it towers above the two massive concrete supports-with-plinths by perhaps 30 feet. Above it is the rest of this recently stabilized trestle that is one of the tallest and longest in N. America.
There’s a lot going on in the construction of this truss:
Next is a recent discovery of mine. After visiting Calgary two months ago to see our new grandson, we returned via the Nicola Valley between Spences Bridge and Merritt, British Columbia. The long gone Kettle Valley Ry ran through the Nicola Valley, I think with CPR trains until the mid-80’s.
You can see a deck atop a sub-divided Warren Truss combined with a deck girder.
That is Rich Brent!
Besides everything you brang to the table so far.
The horseshoe trestle and the old steamer that used to navigate it that lays in the woods.
But the best most important liking for me is the stone piers descending back into the woods with the trees health over the years growing up beside them.
It’s all good[Y]
I may have even missed some things here but it’s all good[Y]
TF
And this!!!
Very much to my liking and I am so sorry I didn’t include the rest of your post, but this!!!
Being a carpenter I have always been intrigued with the wooden truss bridges. I started to build one of these and I failed because the glue failed me and it did not work but I will try it again some sunny day[Y]
That is way cool Selector! I appreciate you for posting all that.
I have a new wood super glue that I am going to use to build one of these for my layout. I don’t care if it does not fit in with the era of the other Bridges because there is still one of these that has been inspected by Engineers that is still operational today
TF
I’m glad you liked that gigantic truss, TF.
You posted a small trestle overpassing a roadway below. We have something very similar in Nanaimo, on the Island, about an hour’s drive south of us.
The following shows the detail of the stringers atop the caps, and how rough-hewn the undersides of the stringers are in some cases.
NICE!!!
You are as crazy as I am Selector! Although you have under bridge pictures that I really appreciate.
So you may just be a little bit more crazy than I am which is a compliment from me[Y] Thank you!
Awesome!
Just look at those heavy Timber cuts. I like old school!!
[Y]TF
Yeah, I’m a bridge nut. Check out this monster, the largest and longest steel trestle in the world, southern Alberta, just outside of Lethbridge. This is the ‘high level bridge’ over the Oldman River.
And this complicated wedge truss is at the north end of the CNR bridge across the Fraser River about 10 miles east of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Photo by Andy Cassidy:
My favorite isn’t a bridge but it bridges Mexican Canyon near Cloudcroft NM. The Mexican Canyon Trestle is 323 feet long by 52 feet tall. It was one of 58 trestles on the 32 mile long Alamogordo Sacramento Mountain Railroad climbing from 4350’ AMSL (Alamogordo NM) to 9152’ AMSL (Cloudcroft NM).
The rail was narrow gauge in size but standard gauge width.
Before restoration
After restoration, 2010
I climbed all over that goodie in the 60s.
Mel
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Bakersfield, California
I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
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I’m heading into the days where I feel like I’m spanning over the Oldman River[(-D][;)]
That is a monsterous Bridge Selector! I have appreciated these new modern steel ones even better these days.
I don’t quite remember where it was or what bridge it was. But someone had posted a bridge similar to this that blew over in a tornado.
It wasn’t the bridges fault of the structure not holding up but the inadequate anchor hardware used in the cement footings that decomposed prematurely. What a shame I remember feeling looking at the after pictures.
That wedge Bridge certainly is an interesting one to look at. It definitely exhibits the railroad can do whatever they want for whatever situation they have[Y]
TF
Just in time for Taco Tuesday Mel[:P] That is a Classic! [Y]
I can only imagine what a fond memory you have that I could only wish I had.
The fencing and signage were added in the restoral project, all there was in the 60s was a Keep Off sign.
I tried several times to cross the entire trestle but always got scared off because of gusty winds coming up the canyon.
Mel
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Bakersfield, California
I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
I can definitely understand that Mel because I am extremely afraid of heights.
Up High with heavy Winds added to the equation, …No Thanks!!!
But at least you got out on that Bridge a little bit. Who else can say that!?[Y]
TF
I never climbed on it, but I saw it in the '80s when my dad was stationed at Holloman. At the time I had no interest in trains (please don’t burn the heretic), but I remember that trestle, 11-year old me found it amazing.
Hey Selector, That Fraser River bridge really is something else. As Track Fiddler mentions - ‘a prototype for everything’. I checked it out on Wiki & Maps. Lucky it survived that fire in '82 and I guessed the disconnected Gusset-plates on the Catwalk, once continued back to land. Also, there is what appears to be a Hovercraft on the river and a Ship-breaker in the distance - both examples of things not often modelled. But just look at all that fantastic Steelwork - and it was all designed on Drawing-boards, long before CAD, 2D or 3D and Structural-design Software came along. Paul
While this isn’t a road bridge it is one in my neck of the woods that I’ve been on, under and across over the years:
RR_views_0020 by Edmund, on Flickr
It was actually being repaired/reinforced when a tornado came through in 2003 and knocked her right to the ground (except the short section that had already been rehabbed). 301 feet tall and 2,052 feet long.
The Kinzua Bridge was being used as part of the route of the Knox, Kane and Kinzua tourist railroad.
RR_views_0023_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Underneath offered a pretty neat view:
RR_views_0016 by Edmund, on Flickr
When I heard the news that a storm had knocked the bridge over I was incredulous. Never heard of such a thing but I guess an engineering firm had said that the risk was very real.This video is full of a lot of hooey, but some of the photos are neat:
I’ve got another bridge in mind, too but I’ll have to do some digging to remember the name of it.
