Getting Real Column - 11
49. Continuing to the left, you can see the stream bed
and drawn-in stream that the thinned, blackened sub-
roadbed crosses. Girders will be glued to the side of
this, and a set of custom New England brownstone
abutments and center pier will support it as it enters
Towanda Yard. The end of the second lump is off to
the right. In the distance you can see that green foam
has begun to complete the hillside carved out of the
old mountain at Milan. It’s in this area that the main
line needs to reappear from behind some trees.
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50. Up near the top, you can see that foam is begin-
ning to be stacked to form the next “treed lump” that
will disguise where the main returns to the visible
scene. Note the white plaster spot on the old mountain
where some early plaster rock castings were removed.
They were the wrong rock, wrong color, etc.
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MRH-Sep 2014
