Happy New Year tomorrow, everyone. Some might say ought-eight was a bad one, but it seems to have been AOK for the WW&F.
When did this washout occur? And just who ran a stream through our ROW without permission?
On a serious note, the owner of a middle Georgia railroad, which used to be a 10-mile long shortline before becoming a reporting mark railroad with 34 miles of rail cars and one leased Southern Railway SW-1 engine, needed a new trestle. He didn't want to pay for one, so he built it himself. After finishing it, it ran his (well, actually the Norfolk Southern's engine) over it after setting the throttle and bailing out. It made it so he began using the line to again haul freight and never had a problem with it. I believe you said an engineer with the appropriate knowledge had offered his services? You shouldn't have any problems, either. It surely would offer a great photo op place. Can you get a utility such as telephone company or power company to donate or sell cheaply broken poles? It doesn't look like your bents will need to be very big for this.
Jock Ellis