The Bridge at Hurricane Creek Hurricane Creek, high in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, is usually a fairly dry rivulet crossed by the Little River Rail Road.
However, when hurricanes crash in to the Gulf Shores of the United States they lose their punch and dump their torrents of rain in the Appalachians. This is when Hurricane Creek will roar and wash out everything in its path including backwoods logging bridges. Since 1906, when this part of the Little River Rail Road was constructed, this little bridge has washed out three times. Col Townsend was excited to get out to the site and see what the third and hopefully last repair looks like.
The surveying team is re-establishing the gradient.
The woods and rail crews are fairly confident that this well reinforced sluice will handle the next deluge.
One wonders??? Doc Tom
Beautiful!
Good Job but mother nature can chuck any thing it wants and we can not stop it no matter how good the way is construted Just tink of the things that happen in normal life
Age is only a state of mind, keep the mind active and enjoy life
I know the thread is about the new bridge, but dam, thats a nice looking railbus!
Have fun with your trains
Hi
I am glad you like Motor Car #1. Here is some more information about it.
The mechanism or block is from my kids Playmobil steam engine. My kids are 30 and 26 so no tears were shed when I took it apart I believe it it is of LGB parentage as it runs very well and is very smooth. I gutted its wires and sliders and soldered on new power leads. The wires com up through the floor and are wired to a low cost battery back of NimH batteries from Walmart that are rechargeable. Control comes from a "Critter Control." It has a reversing lever in the cab (electronic switch) and voltage to the block is adjusted by a knob disguised as the headlamp on the front of the beast. It is meant to be turned on and adjust speed at track side and follow along to its destination when you put the 1:1 hand in to the cab and shut her down.As you can see in the comparison photos with the LRRR prototype the wheel base is too short but what the heck it was free.
Doc Tom
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