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.
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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