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( Bridge Hunter ; no Historic Bridges; Bridge & Tunnels ;  HAER ;  Satellite ) WNYP = Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad (leased from Norfolk Southern) This bridge carried Pennsy's mainline between Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Most of that line has been abandoned, but one of the original two tracks that were on this bridge is still used by the WNYP. Photo  from  HAER PA,61-OICI,2--2  from  pa1273 July 1971. AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE II, ERIE RAILWAY SURVEY. - Pennsylvania Railroad, Allegheny River Bridge, River Street vicinity, Oil City, Venango County, PA [It is Pennsy's roundhouse. Erie was on the other side of the river. My understanding of the comments on the following posting is that the modern building on this side of the old building was part of the shops building. The modern part was retained and repurposed as the   Oil City Warehouse Mall .]  Carl Venzke posted Pennsylvania Railroad, Allegheny River Bridge, River Street vicinity, Oil...

( Satellite ) I was going to just post this photo as another tandem crane lift . But when I discovered that Coal Creek Station is a mine-mouth plant using lignite, uses a 436 mile DC transmission line to Minnesota, and uses the steam to make ethanol and corn oil; I decided it was worth further research. Branden Kuck  posted 2250s setting conveyer section. Lighting came out good so figured I would share. Local #49 Gerald Duysen   Is this at Coal Creek Station? Branden Kuck   Gerald Duysen  yes sir it is lignite.com The cranes above are building a conveyor that takes the coal from the Falkirk Mine to the power plant. This photo makes it obvious that it is a surface mine. More surprising, large draglines are still being used for mining. I wonder if they are still made in America. SWCE My 1928 RR Atlas shows that SOO ran through here, thus the rrWC label. The SWCE PDF file indicates the plants are now served by the Dakota Missouri Valley Western Railroad, thus the rrNe...

( Bridge Hunter ,  3D Satellite ) It also crosses Manayunk Canal, which went around Flat Rock Dam . Robert Wanner posted OK, it's a SEPTA ex-RDG Blueliner special train. But it's crossing the Scuylkill River into Manayunk on the former Pennsylvania Railroad bridge. Now a walk and bike trail void of railroad tracks, at one time it was what may be considered the Gateway to the Schuylkill Valley for the PRR as it made it's way Westward from the Bala and 52nd Street areas. Up and over the hill by the huge cemetery. Slide taken in 1985 or 86 by Robert Wanner. Greg Murray commented on Robert's posting The PRR ran 4910 and 4913 over that bridge in 1950 taking a trainload of Boy Scouts to a Jamboree at Valley Forge. Photo from Don Ball’s PRR in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Street View Library Co. of Philadelphia View looks southeast towards Manayunk from Green Lane, with the Green Lane automobile bridge in foreground and Pencoyd Viaduct behind, ca. 1930.

( Bridge Hunter , several construction photos;  Historic Bridges , also has construction photos;  HAER ;  Bridge & Tunnels ,  Satellite , 71+ photos) To explain the title, Cincinnati built and owns the  Cincinnati Southern  route, but it now leases it to the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Norfolk Southern (formally Southern). John Hamilton posted The deep truss allowed it to be built around the old truss. Note the engine under the traveler on the right to get a sense of scale. Engineering Record, Vol. 62, 1910. Digitized By Google. from Historic Bridges

20151212 7457c20, east portal ( Bridge Hunter ,  Historic Bridges , Satellite ) The paint job on this bridge is in remarkably good shape considering that it is supposed to be replaced in a year or so. The safety island allows a rather unique vantage point. The traffic heading west is backed up for blocks because two lanes squeeze down to the one lane of this bridge. But the traffic lights provide gaps in the eastbound traffic. When I go to Goose Island, I take Division Street east from I-94. But when I leave, I go south on Halstead. It is a wide safety island, but it is still kinda creepy taking pictures there as traffic goes by. Note the three big compression members branching out from the trunnion bearing just below the surface. The three exposed racks are typical of Chicago's first generation of trunnion bascule bridges. I zoomed in on the above photo to show the westbound traffic is gridlocked for as far as you can see. The Coast Guard removed the requirement that the brid...

( Bridge Hunter ; Satellite ) CMO = Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Mark Llanuza posted Its early Spring 1984 I'm at Hustler tunnel at Hustler Wis on the CNW Elroy St Paul division .By the 1987 the railroad abandoned this section north of Reedsburg Wis to Camp Douglas and now is a bike trail that photographer [Bruce Schwierske ] matched my older shot i took in 1984.