From Google Maps satellite view at Pekin, Illinois, what is going on here and what the heck is That?
It is apparently a bridge but seems to be more than just a bridge.
Deleading/ painting ?
Is that a sunk barge in the last pic ?
This is obviously a scam. Just to the left of the “bridge” in the last picture, you can see the remnants of a yellow train box with the Aristocraft diamond in red.
Bridgehunter has it as a normal Pratt through truss
https://bridgehunter.com/il/tazewell/up---industrial-spur/
So, I’m going with Sean’s idea that they’re doing de-leading or something else hazardous.
From the looks of that water the “hazardous” got away from them(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
It looks like the property around it is part of a company called Agridyne that makes liquid food for animals like cattle. And judging from the barges in the lagoon the bridge would have to be some kind of lift? It also looks like it could have been double track in the past
This is interesting…they are indeed “de-leading” or sand blasting the bridge for new paint. Here at our live steam club in Griffith Park (Los Angeles Live Steamers), our Board is contemplating the repainting of our 68 foot truss bridge. Environmental problems all over the place. Can’t sand blast because we would be putting paint particles in the air. So we would have to have a specialty company come in and completely wrap the bridge to hold the particles from spreading to the atmosphere and then have it cleaned up and the waste removed. Then a painting company would come in and use paint that was “environmentally safe”. The cost of hiring a crane largest enough to lift this bridge and put it on a trailer to transport to a sand blasting facility is prohibitive at best. Originally the bridge was painted on site where is was built.
Might be this, people killed and $6 million settlement from Agridyne, that company… poisonous gas in railroad tank car
https://www.pjstar.com/news/20180110/families-to-receive-6-million-in-2014-agridyne-deaths
Same city, Pekin, same company Agridyne that is the complex in the picture…
Greg
Pekin Ill is home to the famous P.S.Olt duck call…so that small lake may be a duck call testing range, that for security reasons is made to look like a railroad bridge repair effort. Camouflaged from the view of passing ducks !!, or the odd non-flying barnyard creature; turkeys, and wild hogs.
I have one of their duck calls, and after trying it out, gained 6 new neighbours, all Mallards, who now live on my frozen pond.
Fred Mills
Fred Mills. said:
Pekin Ill is home to the famous P.S.Olt duck call…so that small lake may be a duck call testing range, that for security reasons is made to look like a railroad bridge repair effort. Camouflaged from the view of passing ducks !!, or the odd non-flying barnyard creature; turkeys, and wild hogs.
I have one of their duck calls, and after trying it out, gained 6 new neighbours, all Mallards, who now live on my frozen pond.
Fred Mills
Pot is legal up there now, isn’t it?(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
I do not permit that crap on my property…no joke…, but I do get your humour….!!
Fred Mills
Gary Armitstead said:
This is interesting…they are indeed “de-leading” or sand blasting the bridge for new paint. Here at our live steam club in Griffith Park (Los Angeles Live Steamers), our Board is contemplating the repainting of our 68 foot truss bridge. Environmental problems all over the place. Can’t sand blast because we would be putting paint particles in the air. So we would have to have a specialty company come in and completely wrap the bridge to hold the particles from spreading to the atmosphere and then have it cleaned up and the waste removed. Then a painting company would come in and use paint that was “environmentally safe”. The cost of hiring a crane largest enough to lift this bridge and put it on a trailer to transport to a sand blasting facility is prohibitive at best. Originally the bridge was painted on site where is was built.
You need a few ex navy guys hanging off the bridge in bosuns chairs and sling some tarps underneath. Give them chipping hammers…they will be happy
and the paint can fall into the tarps for disposal**!** (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)…
