Re: How do you build a pile trestle from scratch ?
| November 14, 2021 07:06PM |
The enclosed photos show the pile driver at work building a pile trestle on the Claiborne-Polk military RR in 1942. They are from the camera of Harold Hudgins a commercial photographer who documented the construction of the railroad for the Corps of Engineers. He kept a set of contact prints in an album which would up in the collection of the Allen Parish, LA museum and these are scanned from those prints. All were secured with old style scotch cellophane tape and many are water damaged as well, but they still illustrate the construction of the pile trestle over Spring Creek.
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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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