I was just listening to the noon news out of Rochester, NY and was saddened to hear that the railroad bridge over the Genesee River gorge at Letchworth Park will be coming down. I knew the railroad had been wanting to replace it with a modern bridge for quite a while. Apparently the railroad offered it to the state of New York (parks) but the state declined. This bridge harkens back to the nineteenth century and is a wonder to behold from yesterday.
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gtractorfan
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Hope someone's got some good pictures!
PaGlenn
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Can you post a photo of it?
I don't have a personal photo but if you go to the Letchworth State Park website they did have photos of that (including the original wooden bridge that burned in the 1870's) and the Mount Morris dam. I believe there is a Wiki site for the bridge and the park, too.
farmer boy
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This may be a picture. Found it on Google images.
Lloyd In South Carolina
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Here ya go
Carlyle hoffman
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This is only 1 of many. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!
I've hiked under the bridge with a train on it - that's a site. The bridge is too old for modern rail roads and I can understand why the state doesn't want it - we're broke and there isn't any trails it would connect. When the railroad wanted to get rid of the original wooden bridge to build the curent one the old one misteriously caught fire one night and they had the new one up within a month. Figure that one out. As a lover of railroad history I hate to see it go too but destruction is sometimes the only answer.
Phil Scarborough
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business people are too quick to destroy history. We need to preserve what we have, how can we tell kids where we are going, if we cannot show them where we have come from? How will they learn what is good and what is bad without examlres?
Dave in GA
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It's sad to see such historical structures go. Not just bridges but the old barns, grain elevators, silos, grist mills, red brick buildings in the small farming towns, and on and on.
Does anyone still have an old steel bridge in their county? I'm referring to the ones on the old county dirt roads that were the norm before the "modern" bridges replaced them.
It's also a shame that after WWII, the military got rid of thousands of fighter planes and bombers that helped to win the war. There are so few left right now, and every couple of years, one of them crashes. I'd love to hear a squadron of B-24s fly overhead. At least the USN refrained from scrapping a number of battleships and carriers, and we can still tour through them in several ports around the country.
Does anyone still have an old steel bridge in their county? I'm referring to the ones on the old county dirt roads that were the norm before the "modern" bridges replaced them.
It's also a shame that after WWII, the military got rid of thousands of fighter planes and bombers that helped to win the war. There are so few left right now, and every couple of years, one of them crashes. I'd love to hear a squadron of B-24s fly overhead. At least the USN refrained from scrapping a number of battleships and carriers, and we can still tour through them in several ports around the country.
Aaron in IL
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Here in our township we still have at least 2 or 3 bridges made out of railcars... been waiting on new bridges for 20 years. The state must not care..
Tony in Mass.
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I think the NY parks got cold feet because an identical steel trestle in PA came appart in a tornado a few years ago. Iron girders for miles around, they don't want to be responsible for maintaining it, or lawsuits from it. I forgot, both of these built by the lackawwana????
Kevin Bismark
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Is the bridge you are talking about the one down by Warren PA. went down in a F-1 tornado about 10 years ago, we went down there a month ago, the last time we were out here, they have about half the span where you can walk out and look around, have a glass floor out there so you can look down , about 305 feet above the ground, the rest of the iron is laying down where the wind pushed it over.
They were in the process of fixing it when the storm came in, it"s a state park now, was quite a sight, was worth the drive down there, been traveling around the country more than I would have like to the last few years, but it"s work.
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They were in the process of fixing it when the storm came in, it"s a state park now, was quite a sight, was worth the drive down there, been traveling around the country more than I would have like to the last few years, but it"s work.
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