Don’t mind me sent the three trestle bridges above and this is what he asked:

“Hey Kevin,

“Did you ever think of doing “Old Train Trestle Bridges” on Thursday? The engineering of these old structures, especially pre-1900 is fascinating.” I had to agree. I have included trestle bridges, viaducts, round houses and turntables before, but not in a separate post. I liked the idea and like DMM, I marvel and enjoy the engineering and fortitude and can-do mentality of building these type of projects without modern equipment. So, I have started a folder and began collecting these types of pictures to use on the Old Train Thursday to spice it up a bit. I included this pics today to kind of announce it.

In ending the email, DMM said this:

“As a lifelong builder, I can’t imagine the work put into these. When I lived in Maine, I used to look for covered bridges on weekend road trips. Not many of those left. I built a timber frame boathouse in Maryland that kind of gave me a feel of what it must have been like to build over rivers or canyons-one of the coolest jobs I’ve ever done. I built the windows/doors and we put a slate roof on it. It measured 32′ x 56′. We lost a shitload of tools overboard on that one!”