Merry Christmas! I mean... Its WPF time! 2-3-4 Nov. 2007

[BNSF dude]

Great photos everyone. But some of us are getting into the habit of dragging the WEEKEND into the week.

 

[Steve B]

Jim it's from the days of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway Co and goes back to around 1875 -80

 

[tompm]

I finally got a new video done. It is of the LNE U-boats with the new boxcars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_E8RfcaJSo

 

[UP2CSX]

Steve, thanks for that information. It's amazing how well those old stone viaducts are still holding up to modern day traffic. Not many of those left in the US but we tended to build as cheaply as possible and replace things with better quality material later. Thus, we have some really nice steel and concrete bridges but not much in the way of stone.

 

[IronBeltKen]

Steve, thanks for that information. It's amazing how well those old stone viaducts are still holding up to modern day traffic. Not many of those left in the US ...

...except maybe the Thomas Viaduct (within a 30min. drive from my house) and a few other ones on the former B&O [now CSX] rights-of-way around Baltimore.
A few pix: (dial-up caution - the image in the 2nd link is HUGE)

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=127

http://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=1704

 

[UP2CSX]

Ken,
Yes, the B&O and Pennsylvania were exceptions to the general rule. They both had a lot of British investors and I think most of the B&O's engineer's were British so they built to a higher standard than most US railroads. Nice pictures of the the Thomas Viaduct.