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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Abandoned railroad trestles
From: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:42:42 -0500
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Whether or not trestles were kept in place or dismantled after  
abandonment historically was largely a decision made by the contract  
salvager- who was there to make money, not to make things safe for  
humanity.

The contractor pulling up the rails was commonly different than the  
contractor who salvaged bridges and trestles (for both steel and  
timbers).  Many trestles and bridges have been left in place simply  
because there was no salvage value, or, even if there was salvage  
value, that value could not be realized due to expenses related to  
remoteness, difficulty in access, etc.

Northeast of  Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and just northwest of its historic  
crossing of the M&StL's Spencer-Storm Lake Branch is a quite imposing   
intact (barely-so the last time I saw it) Rock Island tall timber  
trestle.

The Milwaukee Road's main line across the Des Moines River Valley has  
been gone for thirty years or so. Nevertheless, the huge deck girder  
trestle was left intact until only recently, when the UP salvaged the  
bridge to recycle in a new location as the replacement for the CNW/ 
UP's venerable  Kate Shelley bridge (also over the Des Moines River).

The countless bridges and culverts Milwaukee's venerable line across  
the S Dakota badlands between Kadoka and Rapid City were completely  
intact two years ago, including a number of very substantial steel  
structures.

As of just a few days ago, I drove the abandoned original former  
Central Pacific Lucin<-->Promontory Summit line (Utah) Lucin to  
Terrace (22 miles) north of the Great Salt Lake, which was abandoned  
in 1942.  The multitudinous timber culverts and a surprising number of  
timber trestles were still very much intact, although their inevitable  
progress back to nature was  on its way.

Apropos of the current thread, even the abandoned portion of the CNW  
Cowboy line is not entirely devoid of remaining bridge structures.

Nothing here specifically CB&Q, but I think you get the idea

Denny








Denny S. Anspach MD
Okoboji, IA








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