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To: Alberta's Child

no idea... what’s the highest elevation to cross the tracks 30’ doesn’t seem that high or that steep but than again i’m no PE


33 posted on 07/06/2019 8:14:43 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: Chode

For a railroad line that carries doublestack intermodal trains, a minimum vertical clearance of 23 feet is required. That’s the distance from the top of the rail to the bottom of the bridge structure.


34 posted on 07/06/2019 8:22:46 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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