Nostalgia & History > To see is to not believe: SP flatcar bridge

Marty Bernard's posting yesterday of an SP flatcar bridge in Lockwood, NV reminds me of a similar shot that I made of an SP early 20th Century Pressed Steel Car Co. (I think) flat that I took 30-odd years ago while on a work train near Santa Rosa New Mexico.

Pretty beefy for such an old timer, eh?

EO
Sorry that the image looks like it was scanned on a converted fluoroscope...

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Looks more like a bridge for a dirt road running along this side of the track.

EtoinShrdlu Wrote:
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> Looks more like a bridge for a dirt road running
> along this side of the track.

Agreed. 

glendale Wrote:
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> EtoinShrdlu Wrote:
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> > Looks more like a bridge for a dirt road
> running
> > along this side of the track.
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> Agreed. 

HA!

EO

Did we slip back to April first?  ; > )

Cheers,
Jack

Perhaps EO wondered if passage over this bridge was safe, so did what any thinking engineer would do. He got his train down to a crawl and then stepped off, scrambled down the embankment, shot this photo with his camera, climbed back up and then on the other side, regained his mount as soon as it was off the bridge!

Westbound Wrote:
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> Perhaps EO wondered if passage over this bridge
> was safe, so did what any thinking engineer would
> do. He got his train down to a crawl and then
> stepped off, scrambled down the embankment, shot
> this photo with his camera, climbed back up and
> then on the other side, regained his mount as soon
> as it was off the bridge!

Well, yes, except that I still was a brakeman at the time, who was running the engine because the engineer was back in the caboose with the conductor, the other brakeman, a deck of cards and a bottle. I'd never have bagged the shot if I had more seniority.