- Joined
- Jun 1, 2012
- Location
- God's Country.
I'm sticking with it.
No wood pun intended
I'm sticking with it.
No wood pun intended
i think theres a pun artist in the woodpile here...No wood pun intended
Well, from the ORs searched for Allan Polk, it was fresh cut timber.
There were portable saw mills.
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Is this the same bridge? I'd saved it from somewhere just because I always save CW photos I come across that I like. Boy, the entire bridge is amazing.
Yes, I thought that was the case. Thanks for making me not seem clueless.
Portable saw mills? I wasn't aware of such a thing. Were these things that military engineers took from place to place, or were these civilian operations that the military let out contracts to? If I ever get time I'll look into that.
Right. You blew my mind.
How much of that bridge was wood? I can't really tell.
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I am noting a lack of actual wires, and I do see lightening rods astride the the poles, maybe that is all they were, or maybe this picture was snapped before the completion of the wire.I was looking at those as well. I thought that they were telegraph wires too.
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Is this the same bridge? I'd saved it from somewhere just because I always save CW photos I come across that I like. Boy, the entire bridge is amazing.
Why is that?These guys don't strike me as Federals.
Interesting.Well in the picture looking into the bridge look at their uniforms or should I say the lack of uniformity. Not to mention the guy leaning against the door on the right. The long overcoat the fellow in the foreground is wearing looks a lot like the cotten overcoats described and pictured in the discriptions of the Ft. Donelson prisioners.
Looking at the loc.gov website, yeah. Different angle but same railroad carrying bridge.
I'm also in the process of coloring. This oughta be good.