Last weekend I was out on a rail fanning trip to western Illinois, mainly the BNSF Galesburg main, and the Ottumwa main, but did get a side jaunt to the BNSF Fort Madison line. The famous Media trestle is in the process of being replaced with a new style similar to the new bridges west of Princeton, and just to the east of Wyanet, Ill., on the Galesburg mainline. So in a nut shell...the bridges days are numbered. There are already new piers up, with new abutments to follow. Deck most likely will be a deck girder style in Cor-Ten steel, with a concrete ballasted deck. It will still be a great photo spot once the construction debris is gone, and the weeds grow back, just not the classic ATSF steel bridge that once was.....
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