Playing Chicken at Carpenter's Bluff |
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A view of the Carpenter's Bluff bridge taken from the Texas side. |
In 1907, Denison's Board of Trade paid for Macadamizing the road between Carpenter's Bluff and Denison as part of a Good Roads campaign. This may have influenced the MOG Railway to build the bridge to Carpenter's Bluff, thus by-passing Kemp. |
The MOG tended to build the same kinds of bridges across the rivers it traversed: square, usually with an equal number of truss sections, and quite utilitarian. This MOG bridge over the Canadian at Calvin, Oklahoma looks like the Carpenter's Bluff bridge, except for the piggy back. |
The wooden planks of the "piggy back" portion of the Carpenter's Bluff bridge now sports big gaps. |
By 1926, when this map was made, the Kansas, Oklahoma, and Gulf Railway (formerly the Missouri, Oklahoma, and Gulf) was at maturity. The Denison, the KOG used the tracks of the Houston & Texas Railway and/or the Texas & New Orleans Railroad. (Library of Congress) |
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