4884bigboy wrote:You've got some great pictures! Is that silver Mazda yours? I've seen you around if it is. Hope to meet you at the yard someday.
Yes, that is mine. Were you at Judd St. on Friday when I pulled in there for a minute before BNSF 5967 pulled out of there? I told Zack I was there and saw a couple of guys, one with a scanner and he said it was probably John. Is that you?
Ok, two more shots. I'm sharing these because I saw Zack had posted one of his own in another thread. This is the swing bridge trestle over the Grand River just north of the Wyoming yard. These were taken last January after a very wet and sticky snowfall the night before. The morning started cloudy, but the sun came out and the sky cleared about 20 mintues before I took these. Talk about great timing! Sometimes I run into the best of luck. However, my timing was about 30 years off when it comes to catching a train on these trestles!
These bridges have some nice history to them, and there is a plaque on the main one with a description of when it was built, put into service, taken out of service, etc. I can't remember the details right now, but I THINK it was around 1978 when the last train crossed them.
Anyway, I would have LOVED to have seen this swing bridge in operation when the riverboats cruised the Grand back in the early 1900's.
Hey Zack, when you took your photo, did you cross the bridge and see the older, wooden trestle to the north in the woods? It's still there and quite a nice find in the summer when it's all grown over. This one isn't crossing the river, but rather the swampy area below. It looks like a river flowing under, but you can actually walk that area in the summer when it's dried up.
