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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Cheviot Hill It may have never been painted after being built. The steel manufacture does in most cases paint their steel. The bridge is then put together with the steel already painted. Seen plenty of pictures of railroad bridges being built with silver paint already on them. [/quote] Cheviot Hill, I get the reference. I for one, being descended from iron workers, find your comment appalling [:D] (J/K) Anyway, that would have been L&N that had a painted bridge, right? CSX has never painted it. I just find it funny the arguments made here against doing the right thing. "Never a coat of paint there to maintain"--well obviously there was "Outside of their jurisdiction"--well evidently not in Covington, so why not elsewhere? "Cost too much"--well cost a lot less than the figures being floated around here, and in fact no more than the last "golden parachute" to leave the company... I seriously doubt that the bridge will get painted...but I don't think that the towns people are wrong for wanting it painted.....I think that CSX is being irresponsible for refusing to do it . That's my opinion, that and a buck will get me a cup of coffee. We've also seen some intentionally malicious suggestions here, implying that the town deserved to be punished or made to regret their desire to have the mess cleaned up. One of those was to paint the bridge a rust color. Just thinking about that after looking at the pictures at the links posted earlier, let me emphasize that I have no way of knowing what the towns people want, yet I'd be willing to speculate that the towns people would be delighted to have a uniform rust brown instead of the eyesore they now have. I know I would. Funny how railfans enjoy photographing new paintjobs on locomotives, and showing off those photos. Pictures of beat up and rusted over loco's bring cat calls of derision exclaiming how the engine needs to go to the paint barn.. Yet here we have a town making essentially the same argument.... about a condition they have to look at EVERY DAY, and that makes them the "bad guy"? I just don't see it.
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