02-27-2010, 02:48 AM
Ken;
Sorry I didn't include information about the terrain! It slopes uphill from the "Main St" side. When you look at the photo, the terrain is relatively flat from Main St toward the distillery and the hillside starts at the distillery. In other words, the distillery building is constructed on the hillside - the railroad passes through the distillery area and is flat, then you have a gentle slope up away from the railroad. Where the railroad entered town from Frankfort (left side of the photo) it hugged the hillside (more like a ridge) between the hillside and the creek you can see in the photo.
The entire F&C right of way between Frankfort and Georgetown more or less followed the route of Elkhorn Creek. It is very hilly country. There were numerous cuts, fills and wooden trestles on that part of the line. Between Georgetown and Paris, the terrain is relatively flat in nature, and far fewer cuts, fills and trestles were required. The F&C was 40 miles long and at one time, had 40 bridges on the route. There were 3 trestles just outside of Stamping Ground on the Frankfort side, within a mile or so of this photo. The bridge abutments can be clearly seen from the road along with the roadbed of the railroad.
Ed
Sorry I didn't include information about the terrain! It slopes uphill from the "Main St" side. When you look at the photo, the terrain is relatively flat from Main St toward the distillery and the hillside starts at the distillery. In other words, the distillery building is constructed on the hillside - the railroad passes through the distillery area and is flat, then you have a gentle slope up away from the railroad. Where the railroad entered town from Frankfort (left side of the photo) it hugged the hillside (more like a ridge) between the hillside and the creek you can see in the photo.
The entire F&C right of way between Frankfort and Georgetown more or less followed the route of Elkhorn Creek. It is very hilly country. There were numerous cuts, fills and wooden trestles on that part of the line. Between Georgetown and Paris, the terrain is relatively flat in nature, and far fewer cuts, fills and trestles were required. The F&C was 40 miles long and at one time, had 40 bridges on the route. There were 3 trestles just outside of Stamping Ground on the Frankfort side, within a mile or so of this photo. The bridge abutments can be clearly seen from the road along with the roadbed of the railroad.
Ed
Ed
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