Railworks America

Inspired by Buzz's post earlier, I got my camera out today. My granddaughter and I went on a spur of the moment photo session of some now unused railroad bridges. The property owner graciously allowed us to photograph the two bridges on his property and even offered his 4-wheel drive side by side to drive back to the old ROW so we wouldn't have to walk so far. The railroads that used this line were in order:

The Paris and Danville Railroad
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
New York Central
Penn Central
Conrail
Prairie Central

Nice and i like how they put 1906 on that bridge

Thanks! It's hard to see but the first bridge is 1905, while the second is 1906.

Post edited to change the ? after the word thanks to the originally intended !

My favorite abandoned railroad bridge is the Vance Creek Bridge (AKA.. Vance Creek viaduct) in Washington Sate. 2nd highest railroad bridge in the USA at 347 feet high. Not for the faint at heart. It was used for logging trains. You used to be able to go to it, but recently the land owners have put the kibosh on that cuz of recent swarms of tourists due to the local secret of it's existence getting out on the web. Word is...local sheriff's deputies stake it out now to cite trespassers.

Here's the location....

https://www.google.com/maps/place/47%C2 ... !1s0x0:0x0











A drone video of it.....

Excellent photos. Thanks for sharing!

Still in use but it looks like it should be abandoned.

Ohio Electric Bridge over the Maumee River in Waterville, Ohio. It was last used by the Cincinnati & Lake Erie Interurban Railroad in 1937. It has fallen into disrepair after over 70 years of no maintenance. It is a reinforced concrete multiple arch bridge that was built in 1908. At one time, it was the largest earth-filled reinforced concrete bridge in the world. One of the bridge's supports rests on the "Roche de Boeuf", a historic Indian council rock, which was partially destroyed by the bridge's construction.







Here's a video of the top of it.

Railroad bridge to Key West.

Great photos, guys! Thanks for sharing!

GSkid wrote:My favorite abandoned railroad bridge is the Vance Creek Bridge (AKA.. Vance Creek viaduct) in Washington Sate. 2nd highest railroad bridge in the USA at 347 feet high. Not for the faint at heart. It was used for logging trains. You used to be able to go to it, but recently the land owners have put the kibosh on that cuz of recent swarms of tourists due to the local secret of it's existence getting out on the web. Word is...local sheriff's deputies stake it out now to cite trespassers.

Here's the location....

https://www.google.com/maps/place/47%C2 ... !1s0x0:0x0











A drone video of it.....

It makes me sad when you realize the thing you liked the most is gone. Although it is interesting to see that there are still tracks on the bridge. I thought Vance Creek was a logging road now.

Makes me wonder what The new lumber company will do with the Simpson tracks.

For the past two weeks I was vacationing and visiting family out in the Maritime's. My family and I were going up to Cape Breton to drive the Cabot Trail when a very sad event just happened to be on the same day. For a long time now the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (Owned by G&W) has been trying to abandon a large section of track called the Sydney Subdivision from Port Haweksburry to Sydney. The Government in Nova Scotia has been trying to prevent this for quite some time, giving the CBCNS 10 million a year to fix up and operate the line, however the CBCNS has done neither and increased the shipping rate to 300% to try and loose the last few customers. With the line's expiry coming this October they decided August 14 would be the day they move their power out of Sydney and let the line sit dormant until they finally abandon it.

August 14 just happened to be the day we were going up to Cape Breton. We met the train at Iona to see it cross the Grand Narrows bridge, a 1,694 Ft. bridge which includes a swing portion. The bridge was opened in 1890 by Lord Stanley, the man who created the Stanley Cup, who to officially open the bridge and the subdivision drove a steam engine across himself.


The Train Just after crossing the Bridge.


Before the train arrived we were able to see the swing portion before it was aligned for the train.