I saw a note on Altamont Press that the famous Kinzua Viaduct in PA collasped in a storm last night. Here is a link to the story. http://kdka.com/panews/PA--SevereWeather-Pa-dn/resources_news_html
I'm having a moment of memory blank. What railroad was associated with that viaduct? Wasn't it the Erie? Boxcab E50
Wow! That bottom photo is rather spectacular. To see a portion of that structure laying so far out of line is really something. Boxcab E50
Could you point me to a map for this part of the railroad? So I can get an idea of where it was on the Erie system? Boxcab E50
Ken, below is a link to an area map. Although it doesn't show Kinzua, it does show where the Bradford branch, also know as the "coal branch", (our power plant received most of it's coal from this area during the 1940s-50s via Salamanca) leaves the main at Carrollton. Kinzua was located on this line. If you check out the map for the Erie or EL in one of your official guides up to about the mid '60s I think, it should show the complete line, as they were still hauling coal out of that area during the early EL period. I remember EL unit coal trains being dispatched out of the Salamanca office from the Bradford Branch to a power plant at Portland, PA. sometime during the 1960s also. Kinzua is about 16 miles south of Bradford, just about where this map ends. Hope this helps, Bill Erie Map
Bill- Thanks. Now I have a good idea where it is. (Was?) Gotta catch you on the IM again one of these days! Boxcab E50
