There has been talk of abandoning the St. Louis and Iron Mountain tracks south of Gordonville, so I thought I’d see what kind of shape they were in. When I first started walking across the bridge over Williams Creek, south of CR 228 between Gordonville and Dutchtown, I thought it was in pretty good shape.
That dip doesn’t look good
The further I walked south, though, the more I became sure I wouldn’t want to be on a train crossing the creek. What’s that dip up ahead?
Better get up a head of steam
I can hear Casey telling his fireman, “Better throw on more coal. We’re gonna need a run at it to jump this.”
Photo gallery of Willams Creek bridge
These photos were taken in July and October. Click on any photo to make it larger, then click on the left or right side of the image to move through the gallery. I’ll have more photos of the railroad later.
Looks like a photo from an Indiana Jones movie.
In railroad parlance, “Looks like a washout left some swinging rail”. It shows up real well on Google Maps.
Looking farther down the line, the trestle across Hubble Creek at Dutchtown doesn’t look too good from the air either.
I’m going to check out the Allenville bridge over the Diversion channel when I go back in a few weeks. If it looks anything like Williams Creek, though, I don’t think I’m going to walk across the Diversion Channel on it.
I’ll have a bunch more photos of the tracks later on. They’re in sad shape.
I walked across that bridge many times, when I was a young lad. Did lots of exploring, along those tracks, both north and south of Gordonville, when I was growing up. Fun times.