10-09-2014, 05:09 PM
Long story short... my family and I are moving... Phoenix to Bloomington, IN. As part of the chaos, we took a trip up there to scout for a house. Found one, made an offer, offer was accepted.
The really cool part!!!....
The Indiana RR,
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has a mainline that runs within sight of our new house. Just six miles down the road is the Tulip viaduct.
"a 2,295-foot long railroad bridge (also known as the Greene County Viaduct or Tulip Trestle) in Greene County, Indiana, that spans Richland Creek between Solsberry and Tulip. According to Richard Simmons and Francis Haywood Parker, authors of Railroads of Indiana, it is "easily the state's most spectacular railroad bridge".[2] The bridge was built in 1905 and 1906 by the Indianapolis Southern Railway and successor Indianapolis Southern Railroad, which became part of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1911. It is now part of the Indianapolis–Newton, Illinois, line of the Indiana Rail Road.
Work on the bridge started on May 22, 1905, when a groundbreaking ceremony was led by Joe Moss. It was finished in December of 1906 and is the longest rail trestle in the United States and the third longest bridge of its kind in the world. It has 18 towers for support.
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The really cool part!!!....
The Indiana RR,
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.inrd.com/">http://www.inrd.com/</a><!-- m -->
has a mainline that runs within sight of our new house. Just six miles down the road is the Tulip viaduct.
"a 2,295-foot long railroad bridge (also known as the Greene County Viaduct or Tulip Trestle) in Greene County, Indiana, that spans Richland Creek between Solsberry and Tulip. According to Richard Simmons and Francis Haywood Parker, authors of Railroads of Indiana, it is "easily the state's most spectacular railroad bridge".[2] The bridge was built in 1905 and 1906 by the Indianapolis Southern Railway and successor Indianapolis Southern Railroad, which became part of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1911. It is now part of the Indianapolis–Newton, Illinois, line of the Indiana Rail Road.
Work on the bridge started on May 22, 1905, when a groundbreaking ceremony was led by Joe Moss. It was finished in December of 1906 and is the longest rail trestle in the United States and the third longest bridge of its kind in the world. It has 18 towers for support.
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