Nace Road Trestle

[PFMcFarland]

There are many trestles along the Norfolk Southern Shenandoah Division mainline that runs from Roanoke, VA to Hagerstown, MD. This is one of them. Situated in Botetourt County, VA, it crosses the road to Nace about a mile from US-11. All the bridges on this line were rebuilt back in the 1930’s by the Norfolk and Western Railway to a stronger design in order to handle the larger engines and traffic loads.


To Scale by br1078phot, on Flickr
Just to give you an idea of the size of the structure



Roller Coaster by br1078phot, on Flickr
In camera panorama scan



Water Barrel Platform by br1078phot, on Flickr
So the caboose crew could put out tie fires, which were fairly common in the days of coal fired locomotives



Foundations To The Past And Future by br1078phot, on Flickr
Left over from the previous bridge



Connections by br1078phot, on Flickr



Lattice by br1078phot, on Flickr

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PF

[titrisol]

I just love those bridges!
Seabord-Bridge1 by titrisol, on Flickr

[RonB]

Over the Snake River