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Reply to "Lost Bogie Canyon, Colorado"

Originally Posted by breezinup:
Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:
Given the degree of flooding, it's impossible to predict what would have withstood the force of the water.

 

Mother Nature takes great pleasure in proving mankind wrong...

 

Rusty

Not impossible; they would be able to determine a solution with engineering studies. However, a bridge will probably be ruled out due to expense (including the cost of re-routing traffic during construction). If it is determined that this flooding occurrence was a once in a hundred year event - or more (which it seems it was, but with global warming who knows what the future is)- then filling it in the way it was before is probably the solution that will be used. Just a useless guess by me, of course.

In 1951, the Santa Fe parked 10 steam locomotives on a bridge over the flooding Kansas River in order to try to save the bridge from being washed out.

 

It didn't work.

 

Santa Fe's lost locomotives

 

It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature...

 

Rusty

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