Re: Mile markers on C&TS trestles

Hi, Paul -

SFAIK, all of the surviving C&TS trestles still carry their D&RGW milepost markers.
Sadly, at least two of the smaller trestles have unfortunately been culvertized - see
the thread beginning with [ngdiscussion.net], especially the good news posted by
Dick Cowles at [ngdiscussion.net].

Here's the small trestle at m.p. 286.72 on June 16, 2008 - less than a year before its "culvertization" as part of the track upgrade in 2009. (Note D&RGW #315 and its eastbound train on 'Gravity Hill' just below the ridge in the top center of the photo):



The somewhat larger trestle at mp 287.50 that shows in the left background of this photo taken a few minutes later was culvertized in the spring of 2010, only a few weeks before the "Springtime" charter with green-jacketed #489:


Here's Brian Jansky's photo of #489 passing over the new culvert on 05/25/10; the remains of the trestle are behind the fill at the far right:


The steel shine of the culvert had been deliberately dulled by some Dark Olive Green Boiler Jacket Enamel Urethane and handfuls of dirt hastily applied by a pair of ne'er-do-wells a few days before:


Later I returned to the site, dug through the pile of rotted pilings, and recovered the milepost marker plates; one of them I gave to C&TS track superintendent John Matthews, the other - which measures 8" tall by 16" wide - I brought home with me to California:


SFAIK - unlike their predecessor trestles - neither of these new culverts carry milepost identification.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/12/2013 08:33PM by Russo Loco.