Hello,
I heard to keep people from getting on them and falling off.
--- On Tue, 8/4/09, MICHAEL PANNELL <michael.pannell@btinternet.com> wrote:
From: MICHAEL PANNELL <michael.pannell@btinternet.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Abandoned railroad trestles
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com, union_pacific@yahoogroups.com,
colorado-railfan@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 7:21 AM
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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