So, then - Mike, anyone? Why the zig-zag? Perhaps to continue straight would require a deeper less reliable fill? Wild shot - what, may I ask is the vantage point?
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All along the radio tower... Must have been a chilly wait up there.
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Very dramatic shot. I love your photos, Mike. I also love the stories that go with them.
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Are you implying Mike is a princess, Rolf? ;-) Superb shot, Mr. D!
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Mitch: The Lucin Cutoff as this is called originally had a wooden trestle section. In the late 1950's the trestle section was replaced with a parallel causeway and the kink is where the new causeway transitions to the old causeway. I've often wondered why they didn't use a more gradual transition between the two though.
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I've always been a fan of this line. The Lucin cutoff was a marvelous achievement for the Southern Pacific cutting all sorts of miles off the overall trip of going around the northern end of the lake & taking it past Promontory Summit. Union Pacific did well "merging" with both the Denver & Rio Grand Western (Southern Pacific) & the Western Pacific to get both Routes from Ogden & Salt Lake City, to all points west. Wonderful shot, Mike, & thanks for sharing.
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Perhaps it's just the telephoto lens compacting the field of view, but those curves in the transition look a bit tight and sharp. Does anyone know of the speed through those curves?
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Wow! Stunning
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The S-curves are approx 1 mile long, so trains go normal speed through there. From the one end of the S-curve to the other end you can see jogging back to the original route is a distance of 11 miles. If you can't see where the line jogs back, the land at Promontory Point is 13 miles away.
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If the Wasatch mountains and Ogden are in the distance, that would make this a Westbound, not Eastbound
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Ringo: The train is going away from Lakeside and is eastbound.
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