Re: [CBQ] Photo file re: FW&D Wichita Falls bridge

[BRIAN PAUL EHNI <bpehni@gmail.com>]

The last time I was thru there, the bridge over Highway 190 on the Burlington-Rock Island line in North Zulch, TX, still says "Rock Island Lines".

Thanks!
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Brian Ehni

From: Jeff Worones <jworones@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:05 PM
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Photo file re: FW&D Wichita Falls bridge

 

OK - I'll bite Steve - what was the RR name?

Some one recently posted some pictures elsewhere of Rock Island bridges of various repaintings with the logs and lettering showing through. Mostly bridges in Iowa.

 

Thanks!
Jeff

Jeff Worones
Seattle WA

 

From: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Photo file re: FW&D Wichita Falls bridge

 

And in this era of very little if any bridge maintenance you can still find those type of bridges around the country.  There were many bridges in the Ft. Worth area with long gone fallen flags.  I went under one in Eastern South Carolina early in the month and almost drove off the road when I saw the name on the bridge.  It almost looks like it had been repainted recentlySteve in SC

From: Gerald Edgar <gvlc6@hotmail.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 2:33 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Photo file re: FW&D Wichita Falls bridge

 

Barry Stone, a ret'd ferryboat pilot (the big vehicle transports on Puget Sound, Washington) whom I met on eBay is a sometime railfan who shared very recent & unique photos of an old FW&D bridge (overpass) in Wichita Falls. What is unique is that one view clearly show the very old (early 50's & earlier) FW&DC lettering (before the "C" was dropped from the corporate name) and another view shows, due to numerous repaintings, 3 different BR heralds atop another old FW&DC name. SO - if when modeling you goof up the decals on an overpass, here's a BR prototype. Tks Barry! (who now will become a focused BR fan!) Gerald Edgar

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