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OK....this is Interesting

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#1

I happened upon this alongside the road in Oceana, WV…it looks to me like a former Turntable bridge laying upside down across a creek…just outside Downtown Oceana…

You notice its missings some web on this end…where I imagine the rollers would have been mounted…

I wasn’t able to get under it to look due to the water level…And I wasn’t sure of trespassing issues so I stayed on the State Hwy ROW…

I’m thinking the C&O once had track though town long abandoned, and this might have been part of a pit to turn mine runs or brachline locos at one point…

#2

Very interesting find, Bart.
Thanks for sharing. If you find out any more about it, pleas post.
JimC.

#3

I’ve seen two different old flat cars used as bridges across creeks for private roads.
One was a Union Pacific with all the markings, the other had been painted over.
I guess it’s pretty common in the back country to see this type of stuff.

Or just the opposite.
There’s an abandoned Milwaukee steel RR bridge near here that a homeowner used to get to his property. He just decked it over and drives down the old rr right of way.

j

#4

Welll there is actually a whole state hwy traverseing the Old N&W main between Wayne and Lenore WV…Theres even a deck girder bridge with no guardrails…at least 100 feet long and several stories high that you can drive over…kinda neat…

#5

A local golf course has used two flat cars and a box car for bridges on the cart path. The flat cars are sort of distinguishable if you look over the edge. The deck is now 6 inches of concrete. The box car was turned into a covered bridge and if you didn’t see it when it was moved into the spot and before distruction/construction began, you’d have no idea what it was. Pretty sturdy bridge.

#6

Several years ago I was following the maintenance road along the UP tracks south of Caliente, in southeastern Nevada. Almost every dry wash was bridged by an old flat car. (These bridges were for the road, not the tracks.)

#7
John Bouck said:
I've seen two different old flat cars used as bridges across creeks for private roads. One was a Union Pacific with all the markings, the other had been painted over. I guess it's pretty common in the back country to see this type of stuff.

Or just the opposite.
There’s an abandoned Milwaukee steel RR bridge near here that a homeowner used to get to his property. He just decked it over and drives down the old rr right of way.

j


This company makes bridges out of old flat cars. www.pacificrailcarservices.com

#8
Tony Goatz said:
John Bouck said:
I've seen two different old flat cars used as bridges across creeks for private roads. One was a Union Pacific with all the markings, the other had been painted over. I guess it's pretty common in the back country to see this type of stuff.

Or just the opposite.
There’s an abandoned Milwaukee steel RR bridge near here that a homeowner used to get to his property. He just decked it over and drives down the old rr right of way.

j


This company makes bridges out of old flat cars. www.pacificrailcarservices.com

Should read www.pacificrailservices.com Sorry guys.

#9

Tony,
Get back to work and quit messin around with the Company Computer!

#10
John Bouck said:
Tony, Get back to work and quit messin around with the Company Computer!
If they didn't want me to use it then they would give me one with the net!!!!