Thanks for posting this historic photo Ron!
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I never knew there was a tunnel in Independence. Thanks for sharing this great piece of history!
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Very cool photo Ron. I love how the crew is watching the photographer.
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While this is a very nice L & N train photo. Take a glance at this trestle, in past times railroads had B & B gangs to sand blast and paint such structures. Now all I see is lots of rust. Our current railroad management has given up on infrastructure maintenance. When one of these major structures fails they will want the taxpayers to bail them out, while they sit and live off of their off shore investments in retirement.
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I enjoyed all the remarks associated with this photo. Since there are tons of photos on this site, the detailed remarks I think really make the photos; especially on these oldies. I am wondering what was meant by the term that the tunnel was “daylighted.” Does this mean that the tunnel was opened up?
As for the maintenance, or lack thereof comment, I think the remark made is about “current” lack of maintenance. From what I can see in this photo there appears to be only minor discoloration on the top girders. Being both a former mechanical engineer and maintenance manager from a smokestack industry, I can’t believe the railroad would take on the liability of negating critical needed maintenance on such a structure. I would think they do periodic routine structural inspections of their important infrastructures to insure their integrity. Sandblasting and painting for cosmetic reasons I am sure has taken a hit. In 1957 the labor rates had to be in the $2 range. However, the gentleman making the comments may know better as I am an outsider.
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