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File Details: AABAm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 17.5 Mb

Image ID: AABA

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1863.02-03

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Locations & Lines:

Alexandria VA; Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Sources:

J. Paul Getty Museum; Lehigh University; Library of Congress; Smithsonian American History Museum

Snow on the ground.

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 26. Experimental Bridges. – No. 26 represents the end of the bridge described in No. 24, and exhibits clearly the mode of construction and the arrangements for supporting the tracks by which the breaking weight was applied.