CGW - Elma Stone Culvert

Hmmmm....

They've taken out a section of the ROW roadbed between the depot and the culvert for a business driveway. They're also cutting trees along the ROW.

So far the culvert is left intact....

Don,

No big deal if they are just pipes. I was curious as to if it was something worth targeting. But I have enjoyed looking at your finds (including the one near Osage that I believe was yours).

Best regards with the continued work,

John

Hey, John

Yes, there are the "tubes", where the "Old Roundhouse Trail" / "Wapsi Great Western Line Trail" crosses Mead Creek, and a smaller structure crossing a waterway farther north on the trail.

I haven't walked the trail in a few years. 8^(

The tubes are a pair of large culverts, I can't recall what the other structure is.

I never considered them as significant enough to document, I guess. Perhaps they are historic, since the CGW crossed on them.

I'm thinking that there is another very small culvert up near Lylah's Marsh as well.

There exist abutments three miles south on the north end of Alta Vista too, but the time I tried to photograph them, the photos weren't very good. (Old CGW ROW across Elk Creek.)

You can see parts of the old ROW all the way to:

Sumner, where it crosses the Little Wapsi in Google Earth.

Dundee, where there appears to be a large pier in the maquoketa river, and this - 42.577095, -91.526909.

Manchester, looks like a trestle. 42.556595, -91.429337

I think I can follow the old ROW all the way to Dubuque. Lots of bridge hunting opportunities.

I'll try to get some photos near Elma soon.

I guess this page needs a "Rail to Trail" category, too

Hey Don,

Just wondering if you've found the other two structures in Elma. They appear on satalite imagery, but I'm wondering if you know more.

Both are over forks of the Little Wapsipinicon River, just north of town

-John