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ssocal
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Historic Photo
Posted by ssocal on Friday, January 26, 2007 12:27 AM

I've been lurking here for awhile, I ran across this the other day and thought it may be of interest. Its the Santa Fe Railroad bridge and train, over Canyon Diablo. Coconino County, Arizona taken 1885.

Here's a link to a high resolution image. It clearly shows Atlantic & Pacific, A.& P. R.R.

http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/show_picture.cgi?ID=ID.%20Hillers,%20J.K.%20%20109&SIZE=large

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Posted by ssocal on Friday, January 26, 2007 12:40 AM

Here's another from the usgs

Round house on the Union Pacific Railroad at (?). Photo by T.H. O'Sullivan. U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (King Survey).

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Posted by MOJAX on Friday, January 26, 2007 10:53 AM
Thanks for sharing the photos. The hi-res photo you can see people standing on the platfoms. That must of been a view!

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Posted by underworld on Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:32 AM

Great pics!!! Thanks!

 

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Posted by Nescopeck Tower PRR on Monday, January 29, 2007 6:36 PM
 Did you notice (full resolution image) the avertising on the canyon wall, near the bottom of the right full support?   Nice pic.
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Posted by Nescopeck Tower PRR on Monday, January 29, 2007 6:39 PM
Nice manual turntable.
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Posted by underworld on Sunday, February 4, 2007 7:50 PM

 Nescopeck Tower PRR wrote:
 Did you notice (full resolution image) the avertising on the canyon wall, near the bottom of the right full support?   Nice pic.

Couldn't see the advertising. There is an area in partial shadow that looks a bit like a billboard until you look at it closely.

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Posted by Railfan1 on Friday, February 9, 2007 2:57 PM
Great photos
"It's a great day to be alive" "Of all the words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been......"
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 9, 2007 3:23 PM

Heck of a bridge in those times.

Imagine what those folks must think on us looking back at them via monitors 110 years later?

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Posted by Railfan1 on Friday, February 9, 2007 4:36 PM
 ssocal wrote:

I've been lurking here for awhile, I ran across this the other day and thought it may be of interest. Its the Santa Fe Railroad bridge and train, over Canyon Diablo. Coconino County, Arizona taken 1885.

Here's a link to a high resolution image. It clearly shows Atlantic & Pacific, A.& P. R.R.

http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/show_picture.cgi?ID=ID.%20Hillers,%20J.K.%20%20109&SIZE=large

Do you know the height / length of this bridge?

"It's a great day to be alive" "Of all the words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been......"
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ssocal
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Posted by ssocal on Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:23 AM

Found this description at another site, it's on the back of a post card.

Canyon Diablo is a gash in the level plain 540 feet wide and 222 feet deep and is crossed by a steel bridge 600 feet long

Here's a photo of the current bridge

 

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underworld
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Posted by underworld on Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:56 PM

Wow! Quite a different bridge from the original.

 

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Posted by Railfan1 on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:07 PM
What year was it replaced?
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Posted by davews on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:36 PM
Is this Cheyenne? Laramie? (Roundhouse)
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