J Mann Wrote:
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> I also walked out on it the summer before it
> burned. The wood section wasn't in very good
> condition. Water was sloshing back and forth
> through a lot of the pilings. If they are really
> going to use it they would have to completely
> rebuild the section of the trestle that was made
> of wood. Note that the wood portion of the
> trestle was only about 1/4 of the whole bridge.
> The rest of the trestle section was already
> converted to concrete. I would assume that they
> will rebuild the rest of it like that. With that
> in mind, when I saw the TV news report the night
> of the fire the first thing I thought was it was
> an interesting way of dealing with the major waste
> disposal problem they were going to have when they
> rebuilt the trestle. Now I wonder if they will
> even bother with removing the the old pilings.


I remember part of the trestle had sunk where it met the concrete section. The rails and ties were dangling in the air.

There was also evidence a previous fire on the last steel span that got hot enough to kink the rail.

Was looking at pics tonight. All the rail was welded on the bridge and the head profile looked relatively new. SP must dropped some dough into the line before abandoning it.

Does anyone remember the searchlight signals west of the willow road crossing being lit up yellow 24hrs a day for years?