High Trestle

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Thanks to both for the identification and statistics and I agree, it is
too long for a single photo (see attached). Of course, having a train in
a photo would really top things off. Mike Pierry, Jr.


> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:37 PM, NW Mailing List

> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:

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> Dear High Trestle,

>

>                 What you most likely saw was the Trace Branch viaduct.

> It is 1244 feet long and consists of 27 deck plate girder spans. The

> maximum height is 125 feet from ground to rail. As a bit of trivia, it

> is also of a 1.5% (compensated) grade from Field VA to Summit Tunnel

> which is  located at the top. It is very impressive and hard to get it

> all into one photograph from ground level.

>

> Mason Cooper

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> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:53 PM

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> *Subject:* High Trestle

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> We followed the tracks down from Berwind to Cedar Bluff yesterday and

> noted a quite impressive high trestle between Amonate and Bandy. Is

> this structure the highest/longest on that branch?

>

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