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| Vicki Thomas posted This old postcard shows the Town of Maybeury and the infamous railroad bridge from the 1910s. Randall Hampton shared N&W replaced this with the much shorter double track structure that currently crosses highway 52. |
The pier looks like cut stone. But that has to be decorated concrete because this bridge wasn't built until the 1950 realignment for the Elkhorn Tunnel.
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| Street View, looking East |
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| DieselDucy via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Randall's share It appears that the high bridge was for branches that went up into the mountains for coal mines. The branch leaves the mainline a little west of town. Note the three icons for tipples at the end of the east branch. And there is a switchback near the end of the south branch. The postcard is a rather extreme example of "artistic license" because it doesn't show the double-track mainline that stayed on the north side of the Elkhorn Creek. The mainline was moved to cross the river in 1950 as part of the realignment for the Elkhorn Tunnel. It is also interesting how many miner homes used to be along the two branch lines. The branch lines and homes still appear on a 1925 topo map. 1911 Pocahontas Special Quad @ 1:62,500 https://bridgehunter.com/wv/mcdowell/ns-maybeury/ |
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