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found this old photo and was wondering in anyone here might have a idea of location and RR.
Jim
Don't know what or where...but that's a mighty long and (gulp) high trestle. It almost makes me dizzy looking at it! Great pic, though!
Cant help ya either Jim, but dang that is a VERY tall bridge!! I dont know how i would feel going over that thing, good thing its steel rather then wood Eek
I can only offer the following guesses:
1. the span is 600-800 feet long
2. It is 80-100 feet tall.
3. the hills in the background, and the "nature" of the visible area would seem to put
it west of the Mississippi.
4. the loco is heading in a westerly (SW,W,NW) direction.

Based on the above, I'd offer up: AT&SF, somewhere around Albuquerque, NM.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: If I'm close, don't tell me, I wouldn't survive the shock! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Sumpter250 Wrote:I can only offer the following guesses:
1. the span is 600-800 feet long
2. It is 80-100 feet tall.
3. the hills in the background, and the "nature" of the visible area would seem to put
it west of the Mississippi.
4. the loco is heading in a westerly (SW,W,NW) direction.

Based on the above, I'd offer up: AT&SF, somewhere around Albuquerque, NM.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: If I'm close, don't tell me, I wouldn't survive the shock! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


agree with your 4 points but don't know about it being on the AT&SF there most spectacular bridge was at diablo canyon.
jim
Hmm........Interesting.
My guess:
Looks like a new bridge(Fresh paint, very little weathering, ties look freshly cut)
Late 1890's, early 1900's, Riveted construction, the stack on the loco, large headlight(4-4-0 American???)
I agree its out west, but that looks like a morning fog burning off in the distance. So the train is moving east in the late morning, close to noon.
I'm guessing(its only a guess), either Colorado, Wyoming (Iron construction of the bridge where the weather is more extreme than in a desert enviroment)
Since my guess is the late 1890's, it could be any small railroad.
It looks remarkably like the Arroyo Seco bridge on the AT&SF near the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. If it is it is looking East, but I'm not sure how built up the area was when the Arroyo Seco bridge was built. That area is city today except for a green belt along side a road at the bottom of the Arroyo Seco. The bridge was torn down and the Pasadena sub was abandoned by the BNSF a few years ago. The Santa Fe used to enter Los Angeles by way of the Santa Ana Canyon or the Pasadena Sub. Now all of their traffic is routed through the Santa Ana Canyon.
By George...!!! You mean there is actually a Diable Canyon...??? The mine on the upper level in my layout is called "EL Diablo", and the gorge/canyon below is the Diablo canyon...!!! AND the AT&SF runs right through it....!!! Talk about reality imitating art.... Goldth
My first thought was the Upper Falls railroad bridge at Letchworth State Park in upstate New York but, as pointed out before. the scenery is too western for that...and the bridge is different when viewed from the side...

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Steamtrains Wrote:By George...!!! You mean there is actually a Diable Canyon...??? The mine on the upper level in my layout is called "EL Diablo", and the gorge/canyon below is the Diablo canyon...!!! AND the AT&SF runs right through it....!!! Talk about reality imitating art.... Goldth

yes there is a Diablo/Devil's canyon here is a photo of the original bridge .
Quote:So the train is moving east in the late morning, close to noon.
The train is coming towards the photographer. Look at the shadows on the trestle, the sun is on the right hand side of the picture, though the shadow at the bottom of the photo does look more like it was over the right shoulder of the photographer. "Close to noon" puts the trestle in an East-West/ Noertheast-Southwest, direction, with South/Southeast, to the right.
Quote:the Arroyo Seco bridge on the AT&SF near the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. If it is it is looking East
I'm not that familiar with the "look" of Southern California, and, the photo is well before my time. The "hills" in the background would then be the San Gabriel mountains?
Sumpter250 Wrote:
Quote:So the train is moving east in the late morning, close to noon.
The train is coming towards the photographer. Look at the shadows on the trestle, the sun is on the right hand side of the picture, though the shadow at the bottom of the photo does look more like it was over the right shoulder of the photographer. "Close to noon" puts the trestle in an East-West/ Noertheast-Southwest, direction, with South/Southeast, to the right.
Quote:the Arroyo Seco bridge on the AT&SF near the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. If it is it is looking East
I'm not that familiar with the "look" of Southern California, and, the photo is well before my time. The "hills" in the background would then be the San Gabriel mountains?

That is correct, but the problem for me is that I just don't know when that area was settled. Obviously, if that picture is of the Arroyo Seco, it is before the area was settled. The first Rose Parade on New Years Day was held in the early 1890's. I'm not sure when the Rose Bowl was constructed. The Rose Parade goes through downtown Pasadena and this area is a more outlying area. Since that area is quite hilly, and "view property" is premium in California, I think the Arroyo Seco would have been settled in the 1920's or 1930's, although some of the houses in that area were built just recently because some of the home sites are in difficult locations.