The Greene County Viaduct, which is officially known as Bridge X75-6 and also known as the Richland Creek Viaduct and the Tulip Trestle, is a half mile long train bridge in Greene County, between Solsberry and Tulip. Work on the bridge started on May 22, 1905 when a ground breaking ceremony was led by Joe Moss. It was finished in December of 1906 and is the third longest bridge of its kind in the world. It has 18 towers for support. The original cost of the bridge was $246,504 which was estimated in 2004 dollars to be around $20 million.Two 45 foot sections were added to the bridge in 1916. Other than that, the bridge is as it was when it was originally constructed.
I snapped a photo but the one above without trees in full foilage is a better view.
We took a chance on the return trip route, I wouldn't call us lost, well maybe we were a little. We were on roads in the middle of nowhere, a nowhere that none of us had ever been. But we knew what direction we were heading, and eventually made it home, after 4000 feet of climbing! and a few extra miles. and a lot of sunshine and a lot of heat.
The only disappointment of the ride was a much anticipated stop at YoHo's grocery in Solsberry. Often we stop at quaint little country stores, but this one was a dive. Messy, dirty, very little stock, and what stock they had was just piled anywhere they had floor space, and an unfriendly old man at the register who did not know how to make change.
You win some (finding he trestle) and you lose some (Yoho's disappointment).
3 comments:
The stop at YoHo's made it possible to get back home, though. As dingy as it was, I would have eaten a HoHo off the floor at that point. (-;
Ha ha ha! You've never been to YoHo's? It's unique. I guess you expected something like Fox's near Salem (where all the can labels are lined up perfectly on the shelves?)
it was the first time I ever stopped at Yoho's, been by many times, I just didn't expect such a dive. I like little country stores like the general store up by Cataract Falls - the quintiscential country general store!
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