tk48states wrote:Thanks to both of you for the responses. Although I lived in Rochester when the Valley was active I never visited the bridge until after abandonment, assume a lower deck was built for the railtrail and approaches were filled in and graded.
No, nothing has been filled in..
When you are looking at the current bridge over the Genesee, the trains ran on the *top* of that structure, not through the middle of it.
On both sides of the river, the concrete supports for the rest of the bridge work are still there, the deck for the track also rested on top of those.
the entire "bridge structure" was much longer than what remains..today only the section directly over the river remains, the rest of the steel bridge work
is gone, only the concrete abutments remain.
walking or biking on the trail going East to West, from East river road and going west, you hit the part where the concrete abutments appear,
then the trail heads downhill..you go down the hill, and you are now *under* the bridge, at the bottom of it.
then when you walk or bike across the river on that bridge, you are lower than where LV trains ran.
To build the rail-trail through that bridge, they had to cut out some of the supports.
Scot