Passenger train service in Albany will be interrupted Sunday while a contractor replaces the railroad bridge across Periwinkle Creek on the Union Pacific’s mainline.
After hours on Monday, I took a bike ride to the construction site at 408 Cleveland St. S.E. Heavy equipment and sections of the new bridge were sitting there. Also on the site, a huge pile of ballast, the rock used to support the ties that hold railroad racks.
Presumably work has been going on for some time to replace the wooden pilings of the old bridge with steel, as was done on Cox Creek three years ago…