SP/SSW Building Aransas Pass Jetty

r_i_straw Dec 23, 2015

  1. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    The San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad (later part of the SP) helped build the jetties at Port Aransas. Here is a barge load of equipment being shipped out to Mustang Island near Corpus Christi.
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    r_i_straw, Dec 23, 2015
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    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Granite was brought down from the quarries in Central Texas.
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    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Depositing the granite blocks from the temporary railroad.
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    A pile driver building the railroad.
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  5. BoxcabE50

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    Brave souls they were. This type of spindly, temporary trestle couldn't happen today!
     
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  6. JimJ

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    That flat car sure looks familiar.
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  7. Kenneth L. Anthony

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    There is a little book, Rails Across the Bay; The Story of a Valiant Little Railroad. by F. A. Schmidt, published 1970, 14 pages, paperbound. Corpus Christi Public Library has three copies “for reference only” (not to be checked out.) Printed by a friend of mine, the late Fremont Johnson at his print shop in Aransas Pass.
     
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