J Mann Wrote:
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> I walked out on that part of the trestle a few
> months before the fire and noticed that many of
> the pilings were all rotted out. I doubt that it
> could have held a train. About that time Caltrain
> was talking about repairing the bridge and running
> trains over to Fremont. When I heard about the
> fire the first thing I thought of is that it was
> going to save the JPB a bunch of money in the
> removal and disposal of the old wood.


I was there a month before the fire. Walked all the way to the end. I remember walking on the rails where the wooden trestle had sunk where it met the newer cement trestle (there was a place to park a speeder). I also remember the many sinkholes in the deck where when looking thru them you could see water. BTW there had been a previous fire that had been evident on the steel span. I remember a large kink in the rail.