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Earl

July 13, 2009 04:12PM

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The Conejos River bridge is a pin connected truss that dates back to the 1880's. It is very similar to the two spans across the Chama River. All these spans came off the North Fork Branch near Delta and were replaced up there with higher capacity spans. These replaced spans were installed in the 1920's during the major upgrading the NG lines got way back then.

That old bridge, dating from the 1880's still carries 130-ton cars of of perlite and scoria rock 5 days/week. Not bad at all.

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Looking for photo of dual gauge bridge right outside Antonito	Christian Romberg	July 13, 2009 05:04AM
Re: Looking for photo of dual gauge bridge right outside Antonito	jessica stacey	July 13, 2009 08:54AM
Re: Looking for photo of dual gauge bridge right outside Antonito	chris king	July 13, 2009 12:16PM
Re: Looking for photo of dual gauge bridge right outside Antonito	Christian Romberg	July 13, 2009 12:26PM
Re: Looking for photo of dual gauge bridge right outside Antonito	Earl	July 13, 2009 04:12PM
Re: Looking for photo of dual gauge bridge right outside Antonito	Earl	July 13, 2009 05:01PM
Re: Looking for photo of dual gauge bridge right outside Antonito	Larry	July 13, 2009 04:48PM

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