Thank you very much. Looking for the old beds and bridge remains is by far my favorite. The foliage is making it difficult for now but I've got a couple of spots in mind that are really good. Come fall it's game on though!! Have a great weekend.
Good morning Nick. Thank you so much! I've got another one uploading now. Should be done in about 15 minutes. It goes with the pictures I just posted in the community section. Hope you enjoy and have a great day my friend 😊
👋 Hi Kevin Did you hear about the NS derailment 3 days ago on the truss / thru plate girder bridge in Bethlehem ? It happened on the plate girder end section of the bridge where the girders are splayed just before the overhead road bridge. A couple of old high side Thrall Car Manufacturing gondolas it looked like to me.
Hey William. I indeed saw the derailment. From what I understand this is the second one in this spot in the past year. I think the bridge is an old Lehigh Valley railroad bridge or possibly CNJ. They had this one cleaned up pretty quickly.
@@kevinsalsbury2118 I heard it was a string line derailment because of the empty gons with loaded cars fore and aft. It's happening more and more because somebody forgot how to assemble trains.
Once again for a line thats been gone for over 80 years the stonework held up pretty well. To think a driveway is now its purpose in life and that the traffic Source dried up before WW2. It was always amazing how many lines were able to get through 1946 47 but then it couldn't make it past there
Good morning Paul. This one came to an end sooner than a lot of others around here. There was a bridge fire that put this one out of commission. This still cuts through some very rural land so I'm thinking a bridge rebuilt just wasn't worth in the end. Had to have been loosing money.
@@williammcgeehan3424I agree that it seems odd to have empty cars followed by heavy loads….. the heavy cars want to follow the furthest point to the front of the trains which would be the locomotives… heavy loads behind the locos would balance that out….. and I am not an expert but that seems to explain the physics….surely they cover that in training. I do not get it.
Kevin…. This line crosses 183 to the west correct? And you explored that part in the past? I thought the line to the west was in use closer to the ‘70s but I may have misunderstood that. A buddy of mine lived in the mountains off of 895 and I was fascinated by the ROW in the 80s, and it seemed “fresher” at the time so I assumed it had been torn up more recently.
Good morning George. I indeed have explored to the west and I believe 183, or whatever it was called before 183 crossed this by way of bridge. This would have been right at Summit Station. There is still a nice size cut to the east leading up to 183. It appears they filled it in just to the west. What I read was that there was a bridge west of Pine Grove. The Seigrist dam is there now. When this bridge burned down they never rebuilt it. I'm going to have to see if I can get a solid answer. The website I looked at said late thirties but I could have misread.
