Earlier this week, I drove from Texarkana west along I-30. Just east of Winfield TX is a rail bridge crossing the interstate that looks like it has electrification on it. I can’t find any information on the maps about that line. Any forum info? Thanks
dd
TXU electrified line from a lignite mine to a power plant. Sounds like Monticello from the description.
Haven’t been that way in a couple of years–is the bridge still “hospital green”?
I thought that mine had closed down.
the steel is green-- that is what sets it apart from a county road crossing.
the mine may be closed down but there is a lot of talk in the area about expanding lignite for electricity
dd
Thirty-five years ago, they constructed an emense “walking dragline”(originally, the bucket was about 150 yards,[as I recall] on the south side of I-30[ Across from the Winfield Truck Stop, which at that time had a bunch of photos of the mines drag lines around its walls.) After about a year or so they brought another of those “walking draglines” across I-30 one week-end to work on the south side area of I-30. That mine covers quite a bit of territory on both sides of I-30 west/northwest of Mt. Pleasant, at one time there were about 5 of those big draglines working the mine that could be seen from locations on I-30.