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To: Mariner

This one is all steel. However, there is a wood trestle about 200 yards north of where this derailment took place


59 posted on 12/18/2017 9:10:34 AM PST by llevrok (Swamp nothing! Give Washington DC an enema !)
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To: llevrok

New Orleans has a wooden trestle that is miles long, raising the track from ground level near the stadium downtown up to crossing the Huey Long bridge. I have ridden Amtrak over this bridge many times and it scares me to death. I was in New Orleans just a couple of months ago, and still see freight cars parked way up high on this trestle. If one of those supports goes down, yikes.


106 posted on 12/18/2017 9:27:17 AM PST by RightField
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