UP derailment in Houston

[guppyman]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/022004_local_trainderail.html

 

[Clerk]

That is going to be one ticklish problem.

 

[interurban]

A challange indeed!!! The extra pix`s show a lot of the detail.

 

[Chessie6459]

WOW

 

[Flangehead]

couplers = "hitches"

 

[Clerk]

Good thing that the engines were not on that spot when it gave way.

 

[roryglasgow]

That's not too far from where I live. I think that a picture of this bridge appeared in an issue of Model Railroader a year or two ago (it was a bridge on or near that line, at any rate). I dug through my collection, but couldn't find it...must've thrown it away...

Anyway, the bridge is an interesting mix of different styles: wooden trestle, plate girder, trusses, etc. The little blurb about it in MR highlighted this fact...