(erielack) Re: big bridges - small streams

["David Green" <davandli_@_empacc.net>]

Same for Rush Creek viaduct on the River Line near Fillmore, NY - the little
sister to the huge Genesee Viaduct.  Rush Creek is shallow and only a few
feet wide.  Compared to the Genesee Viaduct, Rush Creek viaduct was
considerably shorter, but higher.

- - Dave Green

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "El Jefe" <ElJefe3126_@_netscape.net>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:12 PM
Subject: RE: Re: Subject: (erielack) Moodna Viaduct


> "Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >It's a small creek, too-you could walk across it most of the time and not
> >get your knees wet. Anyone notice how some of the most impressive
> >engineering works are built to cross such minor waterways? Look at
Starrucca
> >and Tunkhannock Viaducts, though I remember reading somewhere that the
> >engineers on the Cutoff project originally planned a fill with culverts
to
> >cross the valley at Nicholson. Then they saw Tunkhannock Creek flood in
the
> >spring, and decided a viaduct would be a better idea.
>
> We can add the Kinzua viaduct to this list...huge structure, tiny creek.
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