GEC #E026 (Expert)

Stourbridge Lion Feb 22, 2009

  1. gvcborders

    gvcborders TrainBoard Member

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    Damn, I figured Hemi supplied this one....Now he's looking too? This is gonna take a while and I'm sure it's well off the beaten path....not on one of those nice black lines :)
     
  2. Geared Steam

    Geared Steam Permanently dispatched

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    Custer Creek Bridge (or the site of...) MILW Road
     
  3. Stourbridge Lion

    Stourbridge Lion TrainBoard Supporter

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    Dean, you got a GPS for that label so I can confirm you are looking at the same place?

    :tb-cool: :tb-cool: :tb-cool: :tb-cool:
     
  4. gvcborders

    gvcborders TrainBoard Member

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    I don't think that this is it. I've found relatively current photos of the Custer Creek bridge and it is still intact although without any rails. It was rebuilt after it was washed out in 1938. Now this isn't to say that there isn't ANOTHER bridge on Custer Creek, but it wasn't the one washed out.
     
  5. Geared Steam

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    46°42'1.66"N , 105°29'15.24"W ?????
     
  6. Stourbridge Lion

    Stourbridge Lion TrainBoard Supporter

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    Keep Looking...

    Nope, not the right bridge

    :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink:​
     
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  7. Scott Stutzman

    Scott Stutzman TrainBoard Member

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    :tb-biggrin: Good luck everyone..... wow!:biggrin9xs::giggle7yc:​
     
  8. gvcborders

    gvcborders TrainBoard Member

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    WHEW!

    Who would have thought it would've taken this long to find. It almost took as long as it did to build the dam (Libby), that flooded the river (Kootenai), which created the lake (Koocanusa), which required the moving of the Great Northern Railroad and the relocation of the closest town (Rexford), which caused the line to be abandoned, which caused the neglect of the bridge, which caused it to collapse when the stream below it flooded, which created the image captured by the TeleAtlas satellites, who gave the images to Google, which allowed them to create Google Earth, which then allowed Darren to find and cause us all to have a massive headache trying to find this image which is about 2 miles east of the town of Rexford, Montana, and is located at the GPS coordinates of 48°53'42.28"N 115° 7'44.08"W.

    That certainly was a good one. :thumbs_up::thumbs_up::thumbs_up::thumbs_up:
     
  9. Stourbridge Lion

    Stourbridge Lion TrainBoard Supporter

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    ... and if one had followed the "little black lines" beyond their termination point one could see the road bed going all the way out into the water; including some muddy patches where it's still visable underwater in places...

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  10. Geared Steam

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    How ironic for me, having been born and raised in Libby during those times, witnessing the dam being built, the resevoir being cleared of trees, and the relocation of the railroad up the Fisher, and the Flathead tunnel......I was only 600 miles off.:mwink:
     
  11. Stourbridge Lion

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    WINNER!!!!!!!

    Congratulations! gvcborders

    Rexford, Montana
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