Trains, mines, and other neat stuff in Nevada - Trains Magazine

Good catch, blue streak 1 !  I was wondering the same thing myself - if that would be included - as I read through Ray's narrative and description.

But I'm afraid not.  First, I'm pretty sure that the photos of the replacement bridge sections - which were posted by Chad Thomas then and later on - depicted a bridge that was going to be a pre-cast concrete deck girder-type on similar, with most of the bridge belwo the track level.  The western bridge in Ray's photo is a through steel truss, with older piers/ abutments, too, which are not at all consistent with the nature and type of the replacement bridge.  Further, the depicted pair of bridges are about 1,400 ft. = 1/4 mile south of the derailment site, which is where the western track [only] again crosses the Humboldt River, at the other end of the tunnel through the hillside that the photographer is standing on.  This is one of those situations where the western railroad's track took a shortcut across an 'oxbow' loop of a river, with a tunnel through the mountain on the inside of the 'loop' or U-bend, and a bridge over the river on each end of the tunnel.  The eastern railroad's locating engineer - at the other / northen end of its tunnel - elected not to cross the river again, but instead to turn a little further to the east and to stay on the southerly bank of the Humboldt River for a little while longer. 

Interestingly, if you click on Ray's link for Palisade, NV in 'Part Three' of this website, at:  

- you should then be taken to a collection of photos of 'GHOST TOWNS AND MINES' at:  

There, IMG_3109 is of the pair of bridges.  More to the point, by scrolling through the images you'll get to IMG_3116 and IMG_3115 , for which the caption reads:

''August 2009 -- The second of two railroad tunnels at Palisade, NV bears the marks of a recent derailment.'' [emphasis added - PDN]

Now, not having been there, I can't be sure, but note this: The marks on the tunnel walls look like they are from a derailed car or shifted load - the same kind of event that could have and likely did strike, cripple, and as a result, demolish and bring down, that through truss bridge on the other end of the tunnel several months ago, as you have noted.  So even though the replacement bridge itself is not shown, some evidence pertaining to it is.  Isn't that interesting ? 

Ray, thanks much for sharing and posting the links.    I like your narratives and the photos of the wildlife.  They are all well-done.   

- Paul North.

"This Fascinating Railroad Business" (title of 1943 book by Robert Selph Henry of the AAR)