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Camp Chase RR
Posted by Seayakbill on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:01 PM

A pair of Camp Chase RR switchers crossing the Darby Creek trestle. Camp Chase diesels work around Central Ohio.  This pair is heading to the grain silos in Columbus.

 

Bill T.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:53 AM

Beautiful low-angle photos of nice-looking equipment - on a deck girder on masonry piers.

No way is that a `trestle.'  If that's what the locals call it, give them a civil engineering text with the, "Definitions of bridge types," page bookmarked.

A half-century ago, Trains printed a photo article on the Kiso Forest Railway (which with I am rather familiar) in which author's comment and captions referred to every bridge as a, "Trestle."  Most were deck girders on masonry piers. one was a steel arch(!)

There were no photos of the temporary branches to timber-cutting sides.  Instead of earthworks they consisted of low trestles made of slash picked off the forest floor, a lot of it with the bark still on...

Chuck

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