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Spokane BNSF / road viaducts >> S-R article

Author: Graham Buxton

Date: 04-09-2018 - 15:26

The photo heading the Spokane Spokesman-Review article is from just a few weeks ago ...

https://media.spokesman.com/photos/2018/04/07/DF_t1140.jpg?abf36d44fcda22a1f7041162086f31df6a374511

The top side of that bridge is part of the BNSF tracks through Spokane.

As the article notes, the BNSF track through Spokane was elevated decades ago, with a series of bridges. Of course, commercial vehicles were much smaller back then, and not all of the bridges can handle 13'6" high vehicles (today's standard 'van' trailers).

There used to be other rail corridors thru Spokane (UP and MILW), but today UP runs on the BNSF viaduct and MILW doesn't run at all.

A better quality article on rail-bridge-truck interaction than the average 'bridge eats another truck' often seen these days:
[www.spokesman.com]

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Spokane BNSF / road viaducts >> S-R article	Graham Buxton	04-09-2018 - 15:26
Re: Spokane BNSF / road viaducts >> S-R article	Butler	04-09-2018 - 17:31
Re: Spokane BNSF / road viaducts >> S-R article	George Andrews	04-09-2018 - 17:43

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Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> The photo heading the Spokane Spokesman-Review
> article is from just a few weeks ago ...
> 
> https://media.spokesman.com/photos/2018/04/07/DF_t
> 1140.jpg?abf36d44fcda22a1f7041162086f31df6a374511
> 
> The top side of that bridge is part of the BNSF
> tracks through Spokane.
> 
> As the article notes, the BNSF track through
> Spokane was elevated decades ago, with a series of
> bridges. Of course, commercial vehicles were much
> smaller back then, and not all of the bridges can
> handle 13'6" high vehicles (today's standard 'van'
> trailers).
> 
> There used to be other rail corridors thru Spokane
> (UP and MILW), but today UP runs on the BNSF
> viaduct and MILW doesn't run at all.
> 
> A better quality article on rail-bridge-truck
> interaction than the average 'bridge eats another
> truck' often seen these days:
> http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/apr/08/truck
> -meets-bridge-the-story-behind-spokanes-much-/#/0

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