CSX/L&N Trestle over Red River in the wilderness of KY

(Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

When I was looking at Google Maps, I was surprised how far I had to zoom out to find a town to find the county this bridge was in. (Bridge Hunter and Historic Bridges index their information by county.) That's why I went with "in the wilderness" in the title.

I was going to quit doing yet-another-trestle. But then I came across these drone shots of the transfer of the C&O 2716 from New Haven to Ravenna, KY. Since I have Terry's permission to use his photos in this blog, I couldn't resist looking for this trestle. As the Bridge Hunter and Satellite links indicate, I did find it.

Redeker Rail Video & Photography posted

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I don't see photos of trestles very often with a good paint job.

1956 L&N Photo, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA), via Bridge Hunter & American-Rails & posted
Louisville & Nashville 2-8-4 "Big Emma" #1953 steams southbound over Kentucky's Red River with a long string of coal on June 4, 1956.
[A comment states that Big Emma is northbound.]

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Dave Arganbright posted
When I was in college in the early 80's, I saw a picture of the L&N's Kentucky bridge over the Red river and decided that I would go look for it one day. On May 9, 1985 I witnessed a solid set of brand new SBD SD50's ferrying a coal train across that imposing infrastructure.

 

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An L&N “Big Emma” crosses the Red River just west of Ravenna, KY on the 233 feet tall Red River Bridge sometime in the early 1950s. Built in 1911, the Red River Bridge was the tallest and longest bridge at 1800 feet long built by the L&N Railroad and is the second-tallest railroad bridge in Kentucky.

On July 28, kentuckysteam 's “Heritage Highball” dead head move to Ravenna will cross over this bridge with a 2-8-4 steam locomotive for the first time since the 1950s.

Photo Credit to The Louisville & Nashville Historical Society.

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Photo from Kentucky Steam Heritage, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)