(LVRR) Re: [thevalley] Digest Number 829

["Bill K." <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com>]

My dumb question for the week is:

When salvaging the LVRR main, why did they remove the entire bridge
structure on each side of the Genesee River - except the main span over the
river itself?

From current photos it does not appear that the structure can be used to
cross except perhaps by person on foot climbing up the abutments to it.


All I can figure is that at the time, the value of the scrap metal in this
portion was exceeded by the safety gear and cranes needed to remove it,
while the remaining structure could be driven alongside, cut/pulled down and
cut into pieces small enough to load with an ordinary boom truck - a 2 or 3
man job.

I suppose also the bridge is of a design that should it be so needed one
could add ramps to it and use it for a highway or road of some sort.


More of Conrail's purposeful job to make the line impossible to be rebuilt
except by a miracle on the proportions of inherting a Bill Gates sized
estate....


This does also lead to the question of why the LV went to the expense of
building the now removed bridges here - was it built so originally, and
perhaps because it could be a flood plain?   I would think normally in a
spot like that you would see a cheap timber trestle, followed later by an
earth fill across the low area.



Bill K.


- ----- Original Message -----
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> Message: 3
>    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:39:43 -0600
>    From: "Roger Kirkpatrick" <caboose9_@_charter.net>
> Subject: Re: Wadsworth Jct photo
>
> To check on whether a Yahoos Group allows attachments, go to that list's
home page.
>
>
>
>   Hopefully this list accepts attachments.  But here's a picture of
Wadsworth
>   Junction from the air that I took about a year ago.
>
>   >    Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:47:13 -400
>   >    From: nessman_@_rochester.rr.com
>   > Subject: Re: Digest Number 827
>   >
>   > The area he is referring to is in the town of Rush - south of NY
>   > 251 off River Road (not too far from the RGRVMM).
>   >
>   >



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