Re: WW&FRy 2016 Sping Work Weekend Pictures
| May 08, 2016 09:39PM |
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Chris Walker requested pictures of what's beyond the end of track.
Barriers to further tracklaying progress include two washouts, a landslide, and then a missing trestle. We laid track almost to the first washout, which will have to be filled somehow. (I don't think a decision has been made yet on how that will be accomplished, as it may depend on permitting.)
Here are some pictures I took one year ago, in April 2015.
This is the location of the current end of track. The wooden stakes with orange paint mark the center line of the ROW, and the white picket is the edge of the first washout.
The washout is actually bigger than it looks here. This hole could swallow a Forney.
What's after that, out of view around the curve, is a landslide. At some point in the last few years, the roadbed lost its grip on the slope and fell down into Trout Brook (below and to the left, out of view -- it's a long way down).
Beyond that is yet another washout, and after that comes the Trout Brook (aka Carlton Brook) crossing where there was a 60-foot trestle we will need to rebuild.
-Philip Marshall
Barriers to further tracklaying progress include two washouts, a landslide, and then a missing trestle. We laid track almost to the first washout, which will have to be filled somehow. (I don't think a decision has been made yet on how that will be accomplished, as it may depend on permitting.)
Here are some pictures I took one year ago, in April 2015.
This is the location of the current end of track. The wooden stakes with orange paint mark the center line of the ROW, and the white picket is the edge of the first washout.
The washout is actually bigger than it looks here. This hole could swallow a Forney.
What's after that, out of view around the curve, is a landslide. At some point in the last few years, the roadbed lost its grip on the slope and fell down into Trout Brook (below and to the left, out of view -- it's a long way down).
Beyond that is yet another washout, and after that comes the Trout Brook (aka Carlton Brook) crossing where there was a 60-foot trestle we will need to rebuild.
-Philip Marshall
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