that "industry" doesn't bring in as much money as everything else does!

A lot cheaper then the Fed Gov Can do it

@@dknowles60 and with RR money.

@@csxns YEA

@ The feds would start with a 5 year study!

They are very organized.

I believe what they’re doing across the river is building a road for equipment access to the washed out right of way downstream while the bridge is being restored. There’s months of work ahead to restore the former track bed downstream, in many places no land exists anymore where the tracks went, and we’re talking hundreds of feet in length in many places. Probably concrete walls will have to be built to retain the new dirt and rock necessary to restore the track, and that’s going to take just as long as the bridge repair, maybe longer. I think a she-fly would only be considered if the bridge was the only issue. It wouldn’t serve any purpose to build it for a track that didn’t go anywhere after it crossed the river! Another purpose of this new road is most likely to access the bridge spans that washed far downstream and on the track side of the river. Those spans are shorter than the 3 at the bridge piers, and might not need as massive of a crane to lift. In any case, it’s a Herculean effort!

@@tomt9543 Thanks, so much for the clarifications! It will be similar to the construction by the CP over Donner. This work is of the type Bechtel is familiar with....but there are no doubt others to do the chore. BTW, there is no, first-person evidence to show Chinese workers were hung from baskets during the construction of the Donner line over or through the Sierras despite reports in the newspapers of the time to the contrary. Another myth that has been promulgated over the decades.

you are correct, coal 🚂

a lot cheaper then a Fed Gov Bridge

@@NorthCoveVisuals Coal is about gone but CSX hauls other freight on this line.

yep