MAIDEN RUNS: New Power in the Adirondacks. This former Arizona Eastern E8 is now working passenger trains on the new Saratoga & North Creek Railway. Aug. 18th was its first day in service. Here, the locomotive hauls passengers across the Sacandaga River. The impressive railroad trestle, the third on this site, was built in 1943 by the Delaware & Hudson to accommodate heavy titanium and magnetite ore trains from Tahawus. (Modern era mining in Tahawus began in the 1940s and ended in 1989.) The railroad bridge is five spans long, and its total length is just a few inches greater than 516 feet. The "bow bridge" visible below the railroad trestle is even more interesting. The developer that helped rebuild it a few years ago states that it is the only remaining "half-deck" lenticular truss bridge of the two or three ever built. ("Half-deck" because the road sits in the middle of the parabolic "bows.") The "bow bridge" dates back to 1885; the abutments upon which it sits were from an earlier wooden covered bridge that went up in 1813 — well before the railroad. The "bow bridge" is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Digital Photo.
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