Jeffrey B. Jakucyk

My guess would be Taylor’s Creek on the border between Newport and Bellevue. That’s right where I-471 is now. So we’d be looking northeast towards Bellevue and what would later become Glazier, Bonnie Leslie, and Geiger Avenues, and Wilson Road, from what is now the Newport Pavilion shopping center. The house on the right would be facing Waterworks Road which used to intersect 10th Street where the onramp to I-471 southbound is now. The photographer (photographers?) would be on the old Grand Avenue, roughly where Tire Discounters is now. I’ll check out my Green Line book after work and see if that turns up any corroborating evidence.

I thought at first could it possibly be the Ft. Mitchell line, like the Spooky Hollow viaduct, but that one has a very pronounced curve. Also, that house on the right is a bit too old for that far out, whereas there are some of those Second Empire rowhouses on Park Avenue and Vine Street just behind Newport Pavilion and a bunch down on 9th Street.

Yeah so this was the Bonnie Leslie trestle, but the location is correct. It was 160 feet in length and the longest trestle in the Green Line system. There was actually another Taylor trestle about a half mile to the east near Taylor Avenue, which I assume was over a cut in the side of the hill that was too steep to fill.

from emails from Jeffrey B. Jakucyk. We think he nailed it. Thanks, Jeffrey.