LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN TRESTLE RECONSTRUCTION DESIGN ASPECTS

This slide presentation, offered at a conference on railroad track and structures, provides details about a Norfolk Southern Railway project to reconstruct a 6-mile long railroad bridge crossing of Lake Pontchartrain near Slidell, Louisiana. The focus is on the project's basic design and construction considerations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association

  10003 Derekwood Lane, Suite 210
  Lanham, MD  United States  20706
• Authors:
  • Benton, W
• Conference:
  • 1998 AREMA Track and Structures Conference
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Date: 1998-9-14 to 1998-9-16
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 5p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridge engineering; Concrete bridges; Conferences; Railroad bridges; Railroad construction; Railroad engineering; Railroad transportation; Trestles
• Geographic Terms: Lake Pontchartrain; Louisiana
• Subject Areas: Construction; Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00796036
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 19 2000 12:00AM