[CBQ] Abandoned railroad trestles

[MICHAEL PANNELL <michael.pannell@btinternet.com>]

Just a general question for someone to have a stab at answering...when 
railroads were abandoned here in the US why were trestles cut down and not left 
in situ ?  Was it a liability issue or were the materials that valuable. It 
seems such an awful waste to build lines such as the branch to Gardiner MT that 
i was exploring the other evening used for a mere 50 years, abandoned and all 
the bridges chopped down.

Thanks 
Mike Pannell




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From: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 3 August, 2009 6:00:53 PM
Subject: [CBQ] CBQ & CNW in central Wyoming

  
HOL WAGNER wrote:
> As for the C&NW, the FE&MV subsidiary line Wyoming Central was completed into 
> Casper by 1887, possibly a year or two 
> earlier, as I recall, and the Cheyenne & Northern was built north by the 
> UP to Wendover in 1887 and on to Orin Junction by the UPD&G in 1890.
> 
> Hol
> 
> 



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