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Author: d
Date: 06-10-2009 - 22:45

The progression to 263,000; then to 286,000; then to 315,000 eliminated mainline timber trestles.

Pyromaniacs eliminated timber.

Loggers preferred oil over coal. Was it economics, availability, or the threat of coal cinder caused trestle fires?

Creosote-treated timber trestles are common on tourist lines. Replacements with corrugated steel pipe and earth backfill should be planned, and "hopefully" never need to be used. But suppliers and contractors had best be lined up.

Do firefighters know how to extinguish creosote-timber fires? Is this knowledge in their handbooks?

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  Surviving Timber Trestles? rharbison 06-10-2009 - 19:22
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Tom Moungovan 06-10-2009 - 20:19
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Ken Shattock (KRK) 06-12-2009 - 09:41
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Tom Moungovan 06-12-2009 - 09:53
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? KTD 06-17-2009 - 18:08
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Industrial Goth 06-10-2009 - 21:04
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Sam Reeves 06-10-2009 - 22:34
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Tom McCann 06-10-2009 - 22:44
  Background d 06-10-2009 - 22:45
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Castlebridge 06-11-2009 - 00:35
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? John West 06-11-2009 - 01:01
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Policespeeder 06-11-2009 - 04:47
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Rich Hunn 06-11-2009 - 06:49
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? CZRY Walker 06-11-2009 - 10:37
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Matt Farnsworth 06-11-2009 - 07:17
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? don 06-11-2009 - 07:56
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? beverlyhelper 06-11-2009 - 13:49
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Rharbison 06-11-2009 - 14:39
  Generalizing your question John West 06-11-2009 - 16:24
  Re: Generalizing your question PNWRailfan 06-11-2009 - 22:03
  other trestle offerings d 06-11-2009 - 23:08
  Re: other trestle offerings SDP45 06-12-2009 - 14:43
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? MRB 06-12-2009 - 22:20
  Re: Surviving Timber Trestles? Graham Buxton 06-13-2009 - 05:19


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