Note, this is old news. This was not part of the Aug 2026 flooding.
UP now owns this route.
Another example of the importance of making a culvert big enough to handle a rare flash flood. If the culvert is not big enough, the embankment becomes a dam that gets overtopped.
It is common to replace a wood trestle with an embankment that covers up the trestle.
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| Fans of Rock Island Lines posted Enid OK, looks to me to be a washout after a culvert went in. I don't see anyway to get those cars there without a locomotive having made the crossing? either it crumbled as it passed or the engineer and fireman had one hell of a ride? It's not uncommon for the piles to remain buried under the berm. I always chuckle at the people on top of the cars. Paul D. French: We had a 25 foot fill with three culverts each three times the size of the one in the photo. During a huge rain storm brush clogged the culverts. When the rear end crew walked up to the head end the water on the top of the fill was ankle deep. The whole will washed away. The crew did get the train across before the track was gone. It took a couple weeks to install a bridge. Mike Nehring: When we filled bridge like this,we would install the culverts , fill in around the culvert up to the bottom of stringer cord, let stand for maybe 6 months to a year, then come back in & pull the stringer cord out & fill the rest in with ballast. It was totally different if it was some other factor involved. But yes that bridge/culvert washed out. |
Note the contour lines that parallel the track over the creek. That indicates there was an embankment here.
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| 1856/57 Enid Quad @ 62,500 |
It looks like the culvert got replaced by a bridge.
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| Satellite |
UP now owns this route.
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