High Trestle

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Would Summit Tunnel be Dry Fork Tunnel no. 3? We are talking about the Dry
Fork Branch right?

Is this the Viaduct?
[image: Inline image 1]

[image: Inline image 2]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 21:37, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>wrote:


> Dear High Trestle,****

>

>                 What you most likely saw was the Trace Branch viaduct. It

> is 1244 feet long and consists of 27 deck plate girder spans. The maximum

> height is 125 feet from ground to rail. As a bit of trivia, it is also of a

> 1.5% (compensated) grade from Field VA to Summit Tunnel which is  located

> at the top. It is very impressive and hard to get it all into one

> photograph from ground level.****

>

> Mason Cooper****

>

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> *From:* nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org [mailto:

> nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] *On Behalf Of *NW Mailing List

> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:53 PM

> *To:* NW Mailing List

> *Subject:* High Trestle****

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>

> We followed the tracks down from Berwind to Cedar Bluff yesterday and

> noted a quite impressive high trestle between Amonate and Bandy. Is this

> structure the highest/longest on that branch?****

>

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