Posted by David Sherman on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 at 8:52PM :
In Reply to: Bridge posted by John Foster on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 at 5:54PM :
There are outfits all around the country that buy wrecked and worn-out rolling stock from the railroads. When I looked into it about 10 years ago, I could get the bed of a 40' flatcar for $3000 delivered. The longest they had was 90'. Some have decking and some don't. I gave up on the idea because my creek is 100' wide and the road into it is too crooked to get even a lowboy logging trailer down it. But for a place where you have access with machinery, nothing can come close to used flatcars for strength and cheapness.
I ended up buying the M35s figuring they'd cost far less than constructing a bridge, didn't require any permits and approvals (try building anything in a creek these days), and could haul all the heavy stuff through the creek except during the highest floods. I built a small log footbridge for when I don't need to haul anything.
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