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21-571: Pigeon Roost or Pigeonroost may refer to: Horse Creek (Kentucky) , location of Pigeon Roost Creek and Pigeonroost post office Pigeon Roost, Mississippi , a ghost town in Choctaw County Pigeonroost, North Carolina , an unincorporated community in Mitchell County Pigeon Roost Creek (Indiana) , a stream Pigeon Roost Creek (Missouri) ,

42-573: A dead-end track, rather than a bridge. One of the longest trestle spans created was for railroad traffic crossing the Great Salt Lake on the Lucin Cutoff in Utah . It was replaced by a fill causeway in the 1960s, and is now being salvaged for its timber. Many wooden roller coasters are built using designs similar to trestle bridges because such a structure can be strong and support

63-454: A high track path while using a relatively small amount of material. Since loads are well distributed through large portions of the structure it is also resilient to the stresses imposed. The structure also naturally leads to a certain redundancy (provided that economic considerations are not overly dominant). Such wooden coasters, while limited in their path (not supporting loops), possess a certain ride character (owing to structural response) that

84-587: A mine 0.25 miles (0.40 km) upstream on Paw Paw. The mouth of the Crawfish Branch is the location of the Crawfish post office, established on March 29, 1907, by postmaster Hugh Gregory. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Manchester and the creek that it serves is 2 miles (3.2 km) long. However, the station on the spur line, a loading depot for the coal mining operations, was named Hima . On May 4, 1920, then postmaster David Gregory renamed

105-461: A river in Kentucky is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Trestle bridge A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames. A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of isosceles triangles joined at their apices by a plank or beam such as

126-434: A spur line up the creek, and it has been the site of operations of at least eight coal mining companies. The name comes, according to local tradition, from the proliferation of " horseweed " in the creek valley. In 1918, E. G. Hurd had a mine 0.25 miles (0.40 km) upstream on the eponymous Hurd Branch. The Paw Paw Branch is the location of Siebert town, railroad depot, and erstwhile post office. Thomas Sibert had

147-461: A stream Pigeon Roost State Historic Site , near Underwood, Indiana See also [ edit ] Upper Pidgeonroost, Kentucky , an unincorporated community in Perry County [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

168-551: Is a modern structure with a long expected lifetime compared to a wooden trestle. Being less susceptible to fire damage in this brushy location is also an advantage. The approaches to the Kate Shelley High Bridge near Boone, Iowa, are steel trestles. New Orleans utilizes steel trestles to support parts of I-10 , the Pontchartrain Expressway , and Tulane Avenue . Also, trestles support

189-527: Is appreciated by fans of the type. The Camas Prairie Railroad in northern Idaho utilized many timber trestles across the rolling Camas Prairie and in the major grade, Lapwai Canyon. The 1,490-foot (450 m) viaduct across Lawyers Canyon was the exception, constructed of steel and 287 feet (87 m) in height. The floodway of the Bonnet Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana,

210-783: Is crossed by three wooden trestles each over 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in length. The trestles are owned by the Canadian National Railway (two trestles) and the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The trestles were completed in 1936, after construction of the Spillway. The trestles may be the longest wooden railroad trestles remaining in regular use in North America. A coal trestle is a rigid-frame trestle supporting train tracks above chutes, used to deliver fuel to boats or trains beneath it. At

231-587: The Great Lakes ports of Buffalo (on Lake Erie ), Sodus Point and Oswego, New York (both on Lake Ontario ). In the United Kingdom, timber trestles were relatively short-lived as a structural type, one of their major uses being to cross the many deep valleys in Cornwall on the spinal rail route through the county. These were all replaced by masonry viaducts. Few timber trestles survived into

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252-404: The 19th and early 20th centuries with the expectation that they would be temporary. Timber trestles were used to get the railroad to its destination. Once the railroad was running, it was used to transport the material to replace trestles with more permanent works, transporting and dumping fill around some trestles and transporting stone or steel to replace others with more permanent bridges. In

273-514: The 20th century. Two that did, and which are still in daily use, cross the Afon Mawddach on the coast of Wales only a few miles apart, at Barmouth and Penmaenpool . The former, built in 1867, carries trains on the heavy rail Cambrian Coast Line travelling from England via Shrewsbury to the various small towns on Cardigan Bay . It also carries a toll-path for pedestrians. Road traffic at this location has to travel many miles around

294-415: The downstream waters of Goose continued to be reported in 1979. The Cumberland and Manchester Railway railway spur was built in 1918, contracted to L.L. Richardson for building the road and John C. White for supplying 200,000 feet (61,000 m) of timber for trestles . This Clay County, Kentucky state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to

315-656: The estuary to cross at either (for light traffic) the second trestle bridge, at Penmaenpool, which is a toll bridge; or (for heavy traffic) at Dolgellau even further up the estuary. Trestles in cast- or wrought-iron were used during the 19th century on the developing railway network in the United Kingdom. These generally carried decking consisting of some form of trussed girder, as at Crumlin Viaduct, Belah and Meldon ; though two rare examples, at Dowery Dell (demolished in 1962), and Bennerley had lattice girder decks. The steel trestle at Martinez, California, shown below,

336-414: The later 20th century, tools such as the earthmover made it cheaper to construct a high fill directly instead of first constructing a trestle from which to dump the fill. Timber trestles remain common in some applications, most notably for bridge approaches crossing floodways , where earth fill would dangerously obstruct floodwater. For the purposes of discharging material below, a coal trestle carried

357-433: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pigeon_Roost&oldid=1101865380 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Horse Creek (Kentucky) The Cumberland and Manchester Railway built

378-548: The post office to the name of the railway stop. The mouth of the Pigeon Roost Branch was the original location of the Pigeon Roost post office, established on 1888-05-11 by storekeeper and postmaster Jefferson D. Rowland. Local oral history is that they were named after a large flock of pigeons roosting on timber. The postoffice moved around to several locations along Horse Creek and Kentucky Route 80 over

399-592: The support structure for a trestle table . Each supporting frame is a bent . A trestle differs from a viaduct in that viaducts have towers that support much longer spans and typically have a higher elevation. Timber and iron trestles (i.e. bridges) were extensively used in the 19th century, the former making up from 1 to 3 percent of the total length of the average railroad. In the 21st century, steel and sometimes concrete trestles are commonly used to bridge particularly deep valleys, while timber trestles remain common in certain areas. Many timber trestles were built in

420-411: The top of the trestle, rolling stock (typically hopper cars ) open doors on their undersides or on their sides to discharge cargo. Coal trestles were also used to transfer coal from mining railroads to rail cars. They were prominent when coal was an important fuel for rail locomotion and steamships , before they were replaced with mechanical coal loaders during the 20th century. Coal trestles were used in

441-731: The years, its name becoming Pigeonroost in 1894, until it closed in 1974, its final location being two miles downstream of Pigeon Roost Creek and 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of Manchester. The coal beneath the creek is part of Kentucky's Breathitt Formation . Pollution caused by the mining operations was measured in 1969. The pH of the river water was 4.2 in Horse Creek itself, and 5.8 in Goose Creek. Fish kills were reported for Goose Creek, and both Goose Creek and downstream South Fork of Kentucky River were occasionally acidic. The problems of acidic outflow and sediment affecting

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