Working rail roads and their tracks.

[RobS]

Rob that is really cool, thanks for posting.
It amazes me that we seemed to have so much more courage to build tremendous feats of construction & engineering. Today, we seem to have lost that vision.

Nah, that vision is still there. One example is the I-65 northbound suspension bridge over the Ohio river at Louisville. Completed less than 5 years ago!

Abraham Lincoln Bridge - Wikipedia

 

[MossRoad]

A largely hidden gem in southern Indiana is the Tulip Trestle, or Greene County Viaduct. Completed in 1906 it is 2,295 feet long and still in service. I've been by it via both car and bicycle and we hiked to the top on one trip.

Tulip Viaduct - Wikipedia

Then there's the 2nd longest RR bridge in Indiana in Delphi. The Monon High Bridge. Tragically, just days before ownership was transferred from the RR to a preservation organization to convert it to a walking trail, two you girls were murdered near it in 2017. Still unsolved. It's been closed since. However, work has just started this February to get it into safe conditions for walking/biking. They didn't want to disturb any soil or possible crime scene so that's why it was delayed for the past 3 years.

$260K renovation underway to turn Delphi's Monon High Bridge into pedestrian trail

 

[Fuddy1952]

I saw this in an old Sears catalog my parents had and made one for my bike when I was a teenager. It was amazing how effortless it was riding the rail, but I tried it out on an active track!
It would be great for abandoned tracks.
I had to put a small wheel front and back of bike with brackets also.

 

[Hay Dude]

Nah, that vision is still there. One example is the I-65 northbound suspension bridge over the Ohio river at Louisville. Completed less than 5 years ago!

Abraham Lincoln Bridge - Wikipedia

Maybe.....I hear that Chinese construction firms now actively bidding & winning American construction projects....
Lets face it, we aint what we used to be.

 

[ArlyA]

Maybe.....I hear that Chinese construction firms now actively bidding & winning American construction projects....
Lets face it, we aint what we used to be.

Really... Do give us creditable links to this information.

 

[MossRoad]

I saw this in an old Sears catalog my parents had and made one for my bike when I was a teenager. It was amazing how effortless it was riding the rail, but I tried it out on an active track!
It would be great for abandoned tracks.
I had to put a small wheel front and back of bike with brackets also.View attachment 651229

WOW!

Put some headphones in and don't look back. :laughing:

That's pretty neat. I love looking in old catalogs. When I worked at the newspaper, we had archives in the basement dating back 100 years+. That was a fun thing to look through on a rainy day.

 

[MossRoad]

Nah, that vision is still there. One example is the I-65 northbound suspension bridge over the Ohio river at Louisville. Completed less than 5 years ago!

Abraham Lincoln Bridge - Wikipedia

Yeah, that's the one that you don't know about, cross over it, and a week later get a bill in the mail for $4.00 and change.

 

[MossRoad]

Maybe.....I hear that Chinese construction firms now actively bidding & winning American construction projects....
Lets face it, we aint what we used to be.

Actually, I'm more than what I used to be.... I gained 9 pounds in quarantine. :dance1:

Turns out I'm a pretty good cook! :licking:

 

[MossRoad]

Really... Do give us creditable links to this information.

Nah. Let's keep this on the RR discussion. That subject is for another forum. :thumbsup:

 

[leonz]

I think I have most of the roundhouse, turntable, transfer tables both current and former pinned, but there's always more. :laughing:

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Do you have the two turntables that were located in in the two Great Northern Railroad towns of Wellington, Washington and Cascade Tunnel Station, Washington !892-1929?