GN Single Span Stone Arch Bridge - HO structures and Louis W

and Louis W

Those brakemen rode the caboose so that they and the conductor could plan the switching at the stations they would serve

This particular bridge was most likely built after 1888 when the Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota arrived at Sandstone MN

X 602 through X 626 were built 1926

two-sided fold out maps far larger and more interesting than appear in any other book we have ever seen

GN Single Span Stone Arch Bridge - HO structures and Louis WSingle span Stone Arch Bridge This forty foot long single arch Stone Bridge, with stone wing walls is a model of a Great Northern Railway structure near Nora Minnesota on the line between St. Cloud and Hinkley. This line was built in 1882. Unlike the Pennsylvania Railroad, stone arch bridges were not common on the Great Northern. Stone arch bridges were used where a ready supply of stone was available. They were permanent structures with very low