Re: Morenci Southern Steel Trestle...
| February 21, 2008 02:26PM |
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I did a little looking around today on the internet, and came across a website I had not looked at before...a hiking website (turns out these photos were either taken or uploaded on February 1 of this year), and came across these photos. Amazing, you can find more modern photos about this railroad on a hiking website than a RR related one.
here's a modern comparison of the San Francisco River Bridge compared with the photo out of RR Of AZ Vol III (1983) Looks like some of the Mesquite Trees on the hill are the same trees in both shots.
And Here's a shot of the tunnel that is visible in Earl's Shot, same portal. I think that some of the cut has been filling in with sediment, because this seems that the portal seems too small to take a 36" gauge locomotive. That Tree seems to tall in relationship to the portal
Anyways, here's the whole set on Hike Arizona
And the MSRY even had Colorado NG Ties, as Three of their locomotives were from there.
#1 was RGS 28, formerly Rio Grande Western #72, built as D&RG 72 "Piedra"
#2 was RGS 29, formerly RGW #73, built as D&RG 73 "Sneffels"
#3 was RGS 31, formerly RGW #76, built as D&RG 72 "U.S Mountain"
William Diehl... \M/( >.< )\M/
-Albuquerque
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here's a modern comparison of the San Francisco River Bridge compared with the photo out of RR Of AZ Vol III (1983) Looks like some of the Mesquite Trees on the hill are the same trees in both shots.
And Here's a shot of the tunnel that is visible in Earl's Shot, same portal. I think that some of the cut has been filling in with sediment, because this seems that the portal seems too small to take a 36" gauge locomotive. That Tree seems to tall in relationship to the portal
Anyways, here's the whole set on Hike Arizona
And the MSRY even had Colorado NG Ties, as Three of their locomotives were from there.
#1 was RGS 28, formerly Rio Grande Western #72, built as D&RG 72 "Piedra"
#2 was RGS 29, formerly RGW #73, built as D&RG 73 "Sneffels"
#3 was RGS 31, formerly RGW #76, built as D&RG 72 "U.S Mountain"
William Diehl... \M/( >.< )\M/
-Albuquerque
Big Diehl Photo <-Photos and Books For Sale, or Like it on Facebook.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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