culvert

[FJ and G]

Are there culverts on your layouts?

Railroads actually prefer culverts over bridges because they require less maintenance and are not as prone to destruction as trestles and bridges.

I'm building a whole series of culverts on mine.

On NS



this one is esp. interesting on NS. The foreground culvert carries water under a spur and the background one carries water under the NS mainline in Manassas. The spur and mainline come together a short ways off to the right of this picture.



the good ole RF&P (CSX) decided in favor of a series of culverts for this particular Potomac River tributary which becomes a raging river during floods, instead of a bridge. We are looking from a northbound VRE train on NS tracks, which are about to join CSX in Alexandria (or Springfield?)



here's a wider view of same

[csxt30]

That reminds me of one type of culvert I made for a gondola load some years ago. I saw it in a magazine. You just wrap alluminum foil around a spring. Thanks, John