Most Photogenic Bridges Used by Amtrak?

[BCL]

Not so much the bridge itself, but the location.

 

[grade1teacher]

I'm new here, so I'm not sure if I can post someone else's photo, but this was posted by someone on Facebook today. It may not be the most beautiful bridge, but it is definitely a photogenic scene. It's the Hawk's Nest Bridge in the New River Gorge in West Virginia.

 

[Texan Eagle]

I have amended the topic name appropriately.<br /><br />What is the bridge that the SSL/TE crosses the Pecos River? In El Paso there are two bridges that cross the Rio Grande near the border. One is a very big bridge span and the other is much more down to earth.

SL/TE use the southern of the two bridges. Also, the river is the Rio Grande, not Pecos. Here is a photo I took from the train crossing the bridges-

 

[BCL]

I have amended the topic name appropriately.<br /><br />What is the bridge that the SSL/TE crosses the Pecos River? In El Paso there are two bridges that cross the Rio Grande near the border. One is a very big bridge span and the other is much more down to earth.

SL/TE use the southern of the two bridges. Also, the river is the Rio Grande, not Pecos. Here is a photo I took from the train crossing the bridges-

Is that really "photogenic"? The river looks muddy and there some sort of ugly looking factory in the background.

 

[xyzzy]

> Wells Viaduct just northeast of Toccoa, GA.

The viaduct is southwest of Toccoa -- between Atlanta and Toccoa, in other words -- although Toccoa is in northeast Georgia.

 

[jis]

If you want a photogenic bridge that Amtrak uses, what could be more photogenic than this?

 

[jb64]

I'm new here, so I'm not sure if I can post someone else's photo, but this was posted by someone on Facebook today. It may not be the most beautiful bridge, but it is definitely a photogenic scene. It's the Hawk's Nest Bridge in the New River Gorge in West Virginia.

That is beautiful. I also enjoyed the Coast Starlight and Empire Builder Photos.

 

[Bob Dylan]

I'm new here, so I'm not sure if I can post someone else's photo, but this was posted by someone on Facebook today. It may not be the most beautiful bridge, but it is definitely a photogenic scene. It's the Hawk's Nest Bridge in the New River Gorge in West Virginia.

That is beautiful. I also enjoyed the Coast Starlight and Empire Builder Photos.

It's Scenery like this that makes the Cardinal a Bucket List Trip! Beautiful, thanks for Posting! :hi:

 

[jmx53]

OK; this pic was on the cover of the Amtrak System Timetable a few years back:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=124706

I like this shot from the elevated perspective and with the fall foliage.

That's a nice location to photograph from. Looking on Google maps it looks like it was shot from a forested hillside. Does anyone who has been there know if it is a difficult hike to get up there?

 

[railiner]

I like the urban, gritty, highly industrial looking scenery of the Dock Bridge at Newark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileockBridgePassaicRiverNewark_01.JPG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileATH_Passaic_br_jeh.JPG

 

[user 1215]

I have amended the topic name appropriately.<br /><br />What is the bridge that the SSL/TE crosses the Pecos River? In El Paso there are two bridges that cross the Rio Grande near the border. One is a very big bridge span and the other is much more down to earth.

SL/TE use the southern of the two bridges. Also, the river is the Rio Grande, not Pecos. Here is a photo I took from the train crossing the bridges-

Is that really "photogenic"? The river looks muddy and there some sort of ugly looking factory in the background.

In this particular case, the bridge is more picturesque than the location. In other cases, the location supercedes the beauty of the bridge. Where are the best of both worlds most prevalent?

Note to Eagle: SL/TE does cross the Pecos. NOT in El Paso, where I did correctly mention that those two bridges are over the Rio Grande.

 

[johnny.menhennet]

The location of this photo is appropriately named "Trestles" by all locals and is one of the most popular surf spots in SoCal. There are many pretty bridges and locations along the coast that 22 PacSurf trains cross each day at lagoons akin to this spot.

 

[user 1215]

There is one bridge on the PacSurf that is enroute to San Diego that I remember was real nice (I remember it, 'cause we had to stop and wait forever for a train to come back across from the other side of the one-lane bridge).

 

[trainman74]

The location of this photo is appropriately named "Trestles" by all locals and is one of the most popular surf spots in SoCal.

It's even mentioned in the Beach Boys song "Surfin' USA," which I hope you've heard. (When I was your age, I regularly listened to "oldies" radio, which I guess is called "classic hits" these days.)

 

[JayPea]

I like this one over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, ID. Unfortunately, unless it's very late either direction, it's tough to find pictures of the EB crossing it, so this BNSF train will have to do.

 

[BCL]

I have amended the topic name appropriately.<br /><br />What is the bridge that the SSL/TE crosses the Pecos River? In El Paso there are two bridges that cross the Rio Grande near the border. One is a very big bridge span and the other is much more down to earth.

SL/TE use the southern of the two bridges. Also, the river is the Rio Grande, not Pecos. Here is a photo I took from the train crossing the bridges-

Is that really "photogenic"? The river looks muddy and there some sort of ugly looking factory in the background.

In this particular case, the bridge is more picturesque than the location. In other cases, the location supercedes the beauty of the bridge. Where are the best of both worlds most prevalent?

Note to Eagle: SL/TE does cross the Pecos. NOT in El Paso, where I did correctly mention that those two bridges are over the Rio Grande.

Seems like a pretty ordinary-looking deck truss bridge. I know of some bridges used by Amtrak around where I live, but they were pretty ordinary looking and the scenery around the bridge was also nothing spectacular.

 

[George Harris]

the Potomac River bridge at Harper's Ferry is most emphatically NOT a trestle.

Nice how in the middle of a lecture on terminology he misspells both the name of the river and the name of the town.

English lesson noted. River corrected. Spellchecker was happy with the town name and so am I. What can I say? I am a civil engineer, not an English teacher. However, I have been known to write reports and specification that seem to have passed muster with the people I did them for.

 

[City of Miami]

Venture Forth, regarding the bridge over the Pecos River. When I have been on the Sunset Limited the conductor has always alerted us that the bridge is coming and referred to it as the PR High Bridge, adding that it is the highest RR bridge in the US and IIRC the second highest in the world.

 

[jis]

Venture Forth, regarding the bridge over the Pecos River. When I have been on the Sunset Limited the conductor has always alerted us that the bridge is coming and referred to it as the PR High Bridge, adding that it is the highest RR bridge in the US and IIRC the second highest in the world.

Not even close to the highest or second or even 12th highest in the world, or the highest in the US. See the list at http://highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_100_Highest_Railway_Bridges . It does not even appear on the list since it is not high enough, at 84m, to make it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecos_River_High_Bridge

 

[Swadian Hardcore]

The highest in the US is the Pit River Bridge over Lake Shasta. I think it's used by the CS.

 

[CREWDORM#2524]

My personal vote is the former SAL bridge over Lake Gaston on the VA/NC line. Hosted the Silver Star up to 1986 before the line was abandoned by CSX and the train was rerouted thru Rocky Mount.

 

[xyzzy]

My personal vote is the former SAL bridge over Lake Gaston on the VA/NC line. Hosted the Silver Star up to 1986 before the line was abandoned by CSX and the train was rerouted thru Rocky Mount.

The bridge is still there, track-less. I believe SEHSR would reuse it.

 

[JayPea]

Another bridge in my neck of the woods that merits mention is the Latah Creek bridge just west of downtown Spokane. Nearly 200 feet high and over half a mile long, it's very unusual in that it splits into a Y at its western end, with Seattle bound traffic taking the right half of the Y and Portland bound traffic the left.

 

[crescent2]

The distant landscape and sky are pretty. The more pix, the better!