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QUOTE: Originally posted by lfish Gabe, I've always understood a shoo-fly anything to be a temporary structure around a derailment, washout, etc. Shoo-fly pie, on the other hand, is a Pennsylvania Dutch dessert so sweet your teeth will fall out in your hand. Try taking this recipe http://www.maplesprings.com/shooflyrecipe.html over to the Diner and ask Cherokee Woman nicely if she would consider adding it to the menu. Larry
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe QUOTE: Originally posted by lfish Gabe, I've always understood a shoo-fly anything to be a temporary structure around a derailment, washout, etc. Shoo-fly pie, on the other hand, is a Pennsylvania Dutch dessert so sweet your teeth will fall out in your hand. Try taking this recipe http://www.maplesprings.com/shooflyrecipe.html over to the Diner and ask Cherokee Woman nicely if she would consider adding it to the menu. Larry Thanks Larry.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73 It would just be a bridge on a shoo-fly , or , a shoo-fly with a bridge .UP can't just put a temporary fill into that creek until the main is repaired.
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Originally posted by Soo2610 Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply dldance Member sinceAugust 2003 From: Near Promentory UT 1,590 posts Posted by dldance on Saturday, May 7, 2005 8:14 AM shoo-fly bridges are most commonly used when a main line bridge needs to be completely replaced. I saw one in Idaho Falls used for that reason. The abutments and main supports were made from ties stacked Lincoln-Log style and the deck was a heavy duty flatcar minus trucks. It was in use for about 3 months as I recall. dd Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 7, 2005 8:41 AM They dropped in 5 culverts of 100" each. They then covered that with ballast (saw one of the ballast trains on the Rochelle webcam. I believe they said it would take 36,000 tons of ballast because they have to actually build over 1/2 mile of track for the shoo-fly and approaches. Reply Edit jchnhtfd Member sinceJanuary 2001 From: US 1,537 posts Posted by jchnhtfd on Saturday, May 7, 2005 8:34 PM Nobody's answered Jay's question, which I've always wondered about, too -- where'd the term come from?! I've used it often enough, and understand what it means, and all that -- but where'd it come from? Jamie Reply nanaimo73 Member sinceApril 2005 From: Nanaimo BC Canada 4,117 posts Posted by nanaimo73 on Saturday, May 7, 2005 8:48 PM What time is it in Iraq? Does our leader get weekends off? Dale Reply tree68 Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Northern New York 25,008 posts Posted by tree68 on Saturday, May 7, 2005 10:16 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by dldance shoo-fly bridges are most commonly used when a main line bridge needs to be completely replaced. I saw one in Idaho Falls used for that reason. The abutments and main supports were made from ties stacked Lincoln-Log style and the deck was a heavy duty flatcar minus trucks. It was in use for about 3 months as I recall. dd IC did the same thing on the double track main in Rantoul, IL in the 70's. It was longer than 3 months, though. I think they built something more substantial than stacked ties and a flatcar, however. Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it... Reply Mookie Member sinceJune 2001 From: US 13,488 posts Posted by Mookie on Monday, May 9, 2005 6:42 AM According to my dictionary - a Shoefly is the bridge. A Shoofly is a detective - like Cinder-***. Or an old child's rocker with a seat between two animal cutouts. You place the child in the seat and they won't fall out. Nothing found on where it started. She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw Reply nanaimo73 Member sinceApril 2005 From: Nanaimo BC Canada 4,117 posts Posted by nanaimo73 on Monday, May 9, 2005 1:02 PM The Oxford English Dictionary reports the first RR usage as being in the NY Evening Post in 1905 which reported the SP was almost finished it's shoo-fly around submerged tracks.(I think that was probably dealing with the Colorado River forming the Salton Sea.) Baseball players were saying shoo-fly when they missed a pitch in the late 1800s. The term was widely used by rural Americans in the 1800s when they were shooing flys away, particulary around livstock. Dale Reply jchnhtfd Member sinceJanuary 2001 From: US 1,537 posts Posted by jchnhtfd on Monday, May 9, 2005 1:13 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73 First of all, I don't think UP has a bridge here. Burried culverts are "bridging" the creek but I wouldn't call it a bridge. The Oxford English Dictionary reports the first RR usage as being in the NY Evening Post in 1905 which reported the SP was almost finished it's shoo-fly around submerged tracks.(I think that was probably dealing with the Colorado River forming the Salton Sea.) Baseball players were saying shoo-fly when they missed a pitch in the late 1800s. The term was widely used by rural Americans in the 1800s when they were shooing flys away, particulary around livstock. English is weird...[:D] Jamie Reply mudchicken Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Denver / La Junta 10,820 posts Posted by mudchicken on Monday, May 9, 2005 5:27 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73 First of all, I don't think UP has a bridge here. Burried culverts are "bridging" the creek but I wouldn't call it a bridge. The Oxford English Dictionary reports the first RR usage as being in the NY Evening Post in 1905 which reported the SP was almost finished it's shoo-fly around submerged tracks.(I think that was probably dealing with the Colorado River forming the Salton Sea.) Baseball players were saying shoo-fly when they missed a pitch in the late 1800s. The term was widely used by rural Americans in the 1800s when they were shooing flys away, particulary around livstock. You may not call it a bridge, but the railroad does. If it carries local surface drainage under the track or carries another mode of transportation separate from the railroad at grade, IT IS A BRIDGE. A raised structure made of wood, stone, brick, concrete, iron or steel linking two opposite sides without disturbing or making contact with the ROADWAY, body of water, obstacle or depression beneath it. -Simmons Boardman Dictionary of Railway Track terms Copyright 1990 Page 17 Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west Reply nobullchitbids Member sinceFebruary 2012 257 posts Posted by nobullchitbids on Monday, May 9, 2005 7:40 PM I, too, always have seen it as "shoefly," not "shoofly." Maybe that is why no one can find its earliest appearance. My GUESS is that it has something to do with building something "on the fly" -- a temporary, "make-do" structure to get the railroad by until a permanent repair can be completed. Reply 12 Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. 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QUOTE: Originally posted by dldance shoo-fly bridges are most commonly used when a main line bridge needs to be completely replaced. I saw one in Idaho Falls used for that reason. The abutments and main supports were made from ties stacked Lincoln-Log style and the deck was a heavy duty flatcar minus trucks. It was in use for about 3 months as I recall. dd
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QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73 First of all, I don't think UP has a bridge here. Burried culverts are "bridging" the creek but I wouldn't call it a bridge. The Oxford English Dictionary reports the first RR usage as being in the NY Evening Post in 1905 which reported the SP was almost finished it's shoo-fly around submerged tracks.(I think that was probably dealing with the Colorado River forming the Salton Sea.) Baseball players were saying shoo-fly when they missed a pitch in the late 1800s. The term was widely used by rural Americans in the 1800s when they were shooing flys away, particulary around livstock.
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