Has it Really come to this?

[Euphod]

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/226492/3/ATHENS--Railroad-trestle-on-REM-album-faces-demolition

Oh, the humanity!

 

[leeferr]

Now this will be interesting.

 

[Euphod]

That's great, it starts with an earthquake

birds and snakes...

 

[backyard]

They have been trying to get rid of the trestle for about 20-years now, I guess it did not make the National Registry...

Have you ever seen the video "Driver 8" by R.E.M? It features Chessie System trains and activity at one railroad yard including shots of locomotive servicing and inspection. I had it in my favorites on YouTube and the other day I noticed it missing...time to re-Google Driver 8 !

 

[rjhowie]

So is that fund reported on going to help keep it?

 

[SD45T-2]

They have been trying to get rid of the trestle for about 20-years now, I guess it did not make the National Registry...

Have you ever seen the video "Driver 8" by R.E.M? It features Chessie System trains and activity at one railroad yard including shots of locomotive servicing and inspection. I had it in my favorites on YouTube and the other day I noticed it missing...time to re-Google Driver 8 !

Found the thing. I like the song.

 

[Euphod]

Thanks for posting that blast, definitely from the past!

 

[leeferr]

.... I guess it did not make the National Registry...

Being on the National Registry is no guarantee...it only makes it harder to do.

 

[Euphod]

If anyone would know, it would be you! This is like some occupiers wanting to put a port a potty on the National Registry! It's a stunning image, but c'mon, even the band knows it's silly!

 

[SD45T-2]

Well, looking at it, its not all there! Whats the point in saving it?

 

[Retro00064]

I could care less about the band being associated with the bridge, except if that increases the bridge's chances of surviving. It would be a shame to see a historic structure like this torn down.

Of course, on the backroads around where I live are old, abandoned, decomposing farmhouses, among other agricultural buildings like tobacco barns, which, who knows, may be even older than this bridge. It's a shame to see these ghosts from the past rotting away as well.

 

[leeferr]

Unfortunately, wood structures have a limited life span which of course can be extended with a well funded maintenance program, but eventually, they'll all disappear. The best thing that can be done is lots of pictures and where possible, lots of drawings to maintain their existence in print. Unfortunatly, this also takes a lot of funding and there's no way that volunteers and railfans can record them all. Some will be lost forever and live only in our memories. Like most things, we don't really appreciate them until they're gone, and then it's too late.

Mike

 

[jkinzel]

I’m still trying to get past the part of the article that states “is pictured on R.E.M.'s first full-length album, "Murmur," released in 1983.” “The trestle has not been used since 1984.”


If I’m reading this correctly, the picture was taken about 1983 and the trestle was lasted used in 1984. Is that the same picture as on the album? Sorry, not a big R.E.M. fan.