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Re: New plan to reopen the Dumbarton line
Author: HUTCH 7.62
Date: 08-17-2017 - 18:21
Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> A Railfan Wrote:
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> > Who actually currently owns the Dumbarton
> bridge,
> > causeway, rail lines, and right of way?
>
> Per this newspaper article, San Mateo County /
> Samtrans owns it./
>
> San Mateo County purchased the rail right-of-way
> from Southern Pacific Railroad for $6.9 million in
> 1994, with an eye toward establishing a commuter
> rail service over the span.
>
> [www.paloaltoonline.com]
> 1998_Dec_9.BRIDGE.html
>
>
> - and -
>
> SamTrans, as owner of the Dumbarton rail bridge
> and a member of the Dumbarton Bridge Regional
> Operations Consortium (DBROC) that oversees DBX
> service, will manage the study with two
> transportation authorities that support
> multi-modal improvements at each end of the
> Dumbarton bridges. These are the San Mateo County
> Transportation Authority and Alameda County
> Transportation Commission. Other project partners
> include AC Transit, which operates Line U from
> Fremont to Stanford University and administers the
> DBX service and Facebook, which brings financial
> support to the study as well as a private sector
> perspective on how transportation infrastructure
> can serve the needs of major employers.
>
> [www.samtrans.com]
> arch/DumbartonTransportationCorridorStudy.html
>
Correct Samtrans owns the ROW(at least the east side of bridge to RWC jct) The bridge has to be scraped. Unless the powers at be want to barge out each section of the steel span and rebuild it. The Center span was knocked out of alignment by the 89 quake. And all the cement piers poured in 1908 under the steel sections are crumbling. concrete and steel technology has come along way since the early 1900's. I have personally been on the center span and both approaches (even boated and fished around it at high tide)and although the steel sections and concrete approaches are in reasonably good shape, it would be best to build a new trestle and bridge with new tech. Though a cabon copy of the original would be cool.
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> A Railfan Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Who actually currently owns the Dumbarton
> bridge,
> > causeway, rail lines, and right of way?
>
> Per this newspaper article, San Mateo County /
> Samtrans owns it./
>
> San Mateo County purchased the rail right-of-way
> from Southern Pacific Railroad for $6.9 million in
> 1994, with an eye toward establishing a commuter
> rail service over the span.
>
> [www.paloaltoonline.com]
> 1998_Dec_9.BRIDGE.html
>
>
> - and -
>
> SamTrans, as owner of the Dumbarton rail bridge
> and a member of the Dumbarton Bridge Regional
> Operations Consortium (DBROC) that oversees DBX
> service, will manage the study with two
> transportation authorities that support
> multi-modal improvements at each end of the
> Dumbarton bridges. These are the San Mateo County
> Transportation Authority and Alameda County
> Transportation Commission. Other project partners
> include AC Transit, which operates Line U from
> Fremont to Stanford University and administers the
> DBX service and Facebook, which brings financial
> support to the study as well as a private sector
> perspective on how transportation infrastructure
> can serve the needs of major employers.
>
> [www.samtrans.com]
> arch/DumbartonTransportationCorridorStudy.html
>
Correct Samtrans owns the ROW(at least the east side of bridge to RWC jct) The bridge has to be scraped. Unless the powers at be want to barge out each section of the steel span and rebuild it. The Center span was knocked out of alignment by the 89 quake. And all the cement piers poured in 1908 under the steel sections are crumbling. concrete and steel technology has come along way since the early 1900's. I have personally been on the center span and both approaches (even boated and fished around it at high tide)and although the steel sections and concrete approaches are in reasonably good shape, it would be best to build a new trestle and bridge with new tech. Though a cabon copy of the original would be cool.
