Hi, As a wood turner I had the opportunity to acquired a few feet of the trestle wood to turn on the lathe. I am planning on making some bowls out of the wood. I cut one piece of wood on my 20" bandsaw and it stunk so bad I quit working on it. I have not gone back to cut anymore. Sometime in the future I will have 5 or 6 12" bowls made from this wood. It smelled just like the great salt lake on one of its worst days of brine smell. This was after being out of the water for a year. Mark Mark Shelton Indian Hill Middle School Tech Ed. Teacher Salt Lake Astronomical Society Board Member (School and Special Star Parties Coordinator) ________________________________ From: Kim <kimharch@cut.net> To: 'Utah Astronomy' <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 4:38 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] (OT) Lucin/Central Pacific RR Thanks, Joe. I did many more solo adventures when I was younger - not so many since. I never really thought of the CP grade trip as dangerous, just another interesting adventure. It was before I owned my first cell phone. Couldn't have called in the troops in the event of an emergency like one can almost anywhere these days. Larry is right about how desolate the area still is. Imagine constructing the RR across it in 1869. You can see drilling marks in the rock, some artifacts, and even follow the miles of parallel grade constructed by CP and UP. Brent, I would have to check but I think it was October of '94 or '95. Larry, I was working with the Union Station in Ogden when Trestlewood was salvaging the Lucin Cutoff trestle, also in the '90s. Something well over a million board feet of lumber, as I recall, were salvaged from the trestle, including piles up to 180 feet long - all old growth douglas fir and redwood from the original construction, pickled in salt. I had a great trip by boat out to their salvage barge one day with the director of Union Station. Anyone who lives near the lake will know of the large spiders that UP imported from South America specifically to control the brine flies on the trestle. Now I think that they infest the entire shoreline of the lake, and the trestle was literally draped in perhaps millions of spider webs. I was too creeped out to leave the boat. (Hate spiders.) The salvage crew told me their bite was painful, but not particularly dangerous. I was not amused. Kim _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".