Fires and Reconstruction

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Inferno. This speaks for itself.
Start of Trestle 4 from the west end.
ootings for Trestle 4. Photo taken Sept 11, 2006.
Placing Railing Posts on Trestle 3. Photo taken March 9, 2006.
Trestle 8 nearing completion and looking towards the east. File: T8_20070822_1114.
T11 nears completion. Placing the ties at the west end of T11. File:T11_20070221_1320
More progress on Trestle 4. Photo taken June 4, 2007, looking west to east. File: T4_20070604_0741.
Pouring Foundations for Trestle 4. Photo taken Oct 4, 2006.
Fire retardent being dumped on Trestle #1. Thanks to heroic efforts by many individuals, it was saved.
Two trestles. Two trestles burning, probably #14 and #15.
Trestle 6, Charred Timbers to be replaced. File: T6_20070727_1220.
T11 from the west. Photo taken January 18, 2007. File:T11_20070118_1245
Side view of T11 from the hillside above. Photo taken January 17, 2007. File:T11_20070115_1250
Trestle 15 from Remotely Controlled Helicopter. Bird’s eye view of Trestle 15 reconstruction. Note the crane resting on a movable dolly with the 5th bent under construction below.
Trestle 13 from above.
Trestle Plaque. Bronze plaque at the end of Trestle #17, which. although stained by retardent, survived the fire. (The trestle survived, too!)
Trestle 7, about half-completed, moving from east to west. File: T7_20071019_1359.
Trestle #2 ablaze.