Great Picture

[RR_Mel]

Great Picture

 

My daughter sent this picture of the Alamogordo and Sacramento Railroad this morning, it must have been taken in the early 1900s.  It is the Bailey Canyon S Curve Trestle (long gone).

 

 

I grew up in El Paso TX and traveled to the New Mexico Sacramento Mountains quite often.  I later moved just west of Cloudcroft in Alamogordo NM.  My layout is based on the Cloudcroft/Sacramento Mountains.

 

The only trestle left, Mexican Canyon Trestle, was restored by the USDA in 2010.

 

 

Before Restoration

 

 

 

After Restoration

 

I just thought I would pass along some pictures from my past that is part of my model railroading.  When I designed my layout it was a must to have a timber bridge and trestle.

 

 

My Layout

 

It’s not a logging locomotive but that is my trestle.

 

 

 

Mel

 

 

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

 

[SeeYou190]

That is a great picture.

An S-Curved Trestle... there must have been a unique need for such a thing.

This is the largest trestle I ever built, in N Scale on the Scale Rails Of Southwest Florida portable layout.

-Kevin

[Track fiddler]

Great looking bridges guys. Not only the prototypical photos but the models look awesome.

 

 

TF