Working rail roads and their tracks.

[Hay Dude]

Taken just a few days ago

 

[buckeyefarmer]

This is interesting, shared bridge.


The One-Lane Bridge Shared By Cars And Trains - YouTube

 

[RobS]

This is interesting, shared bridge.


The One-Lane Bridge Shared By Cars And Trains - YouTube

That's pretty cool!

 

[MossRoad]

Reminds me of the South Shore RR that runs from Chicago to South Bend, IN. It used to run down the middle of the street here in South Bend for a couple miles right to the center of town. When the train was coming, you moved over. They moved it out to the edge of town in the 70's, but it still runs down the middle of city streets over in Michigan City, IN.

 

[ArlyA]

Hey! In west Duluth MN is an interesting bridge we've crossed under a few times. We used to reside in Duluth. Its on top-bottom bridge with a RR on the top called the Oliver Bridge.

 

[ultrarunner]

Always thought this rail bed was odd

Vennbahn: The World's Weirdest Border? - YouTube

 

[ArlyA]

More photos taken at Quincy mine location today. In that refurbished mine rock car. I can't believe how light those trucks are. As you might guess, its a narrow gauge.

 

[Hay Dude]

We had something like that in our town. It was called a tramway. Small steam locos and little ore cars like that. It was for a couple Feldspar mines we had. The tracks are gone, but you can still see the rail crossings on the backroads and overgrown cuts through the woods. The tramway brought cars up to a main track where I guess they may have been tipped into larger cars?

Thanks for those really cool pics Arly.

 

[ArlyA]

We had something like that in our town. It was called a tramway. Small steam locos and little ore cars like that. It was for a couple Feldspar mines we had. The tracks are gone, but you can still see the rail crossings on the backroads and overgrown cuts through the woods. The tramway brought cars up to a main track where I guess they may have been tipped into larger cars?

Those cars would have used to haul ore to the mill which was 15 miles away (abouts to the stamp mill) Here is a photo of the hoist I took the photo within. If you go to the Quincy site, you'll note this was the largest steam hoist built the world and lifted ore up a 7000ft shaft.

From Wikie

hen the mine ceased production in 1945, the Quincy Number 2 shaft was the world's longest mine shaft, at 9,260 feet (2.82 km or 1.75 miles) along the dip of the deposit on a 55 degree decline.[12][13] (measured vertically from the shaft collar, the depth is 6,200 feet.)[14] To raise and lower ore and workers into this shaft, the world's largest steam-driven mine hoist was built in 1918 and housed in the Quincy Number 2 Hoist House. The Nordberg Steam Hoist and its reinforced concrete building, built in the Georgian architectural style with brick veneer and Italian-tiled walls, cost over $370,000 in 1918 but was used for only eleven years until it ceased usage in 1929.[15] Weighing more than 880 tons, it lifted 10 tons of ore at 36.4 miles per hour, thus saving $16,080 in fuel bills in its first year of operation.[16] The hoist sat on the largest concrete slab ever poured, containing 3200 cu. yards of concrete and over 8 tons of reinforcement material.[17] The Number 2 Hoist House was built as a reinforced concrete structure on a scale rare for 1918, making it one of the first of its kind.[18] The very decorative Hoist House was used as a showpiece for visiting investors.

 

[MossRoad]

Neat stuff and info. Thanks.