Re: Proof that not only the Eating House was built on stilts at Forks Creek.

Posted by Todd Hackett on
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John Schapekahm wrote

... I want to say the actual location is Elk Creek...

Most of my photos of Elk Creek are also with the early wood truss bridge, but I do have an Al Chione slide from 5-30-39 of a gondola train pulled by #71 crossing the later steel truss bridge, identified in his notes as Elk Creek. While the abutment and creek alignment match Derrell's photo, the bridge itself is shorter. It has a vertical column at each end (the top of which connects to the diagonal member at the end of the bridge), with one more column in the middle. The bridge in Derrell's photo doesn't have coluns at the very end, but has four intermediate columns. The terrain in Derrell's photo doesn't seem to match that in the early Elk Creek photos.