Nudge Wrote:
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> Looks like the horseshoe job, down at Richardson
> Bay, on the way to Sausalito.(or backing up to go
> to Detour) That would be the 101 bridge in the
> background. That was the only engine left at
> Tiburon after the tunnel fire.
>
> That bridge behind in that pic, used to be an auto
> draw bridge in the 50s, along with another one up
> at Green Brae (That is how they spelled it in
> 1930, TT #6). That part of 101 was made into a 4
> lane highway and the old wood bridges went
> bye-bye. The rail bridge at Greenbrae still had
> one set of tracks in order to go from San Rafael
> to Detour. They both raised and lowered together.
>
> 101 was just opened at Marin City, up the hill to
> the Golden Gate Bridge. The other way through
> Sausalito and up the hill entering 101 at the
> north end.
>
> Rode my bike all over the area and even my
> motorcycle, up Mt. Tam on the old Right of Way
> of the old Mt. Tam RR.
>
> Loved riding the barge switcher around Tiburon,
> going on board the tug, etc. I even got to ride
> Engineer Silverthornes retirement train from San
> Rafael to Tiburon behind a steam engine.
>
> And who knew, a few years later I would be a
> Fireman and Engineer on the Coast.
>
>
>
>
> Nudge

Nudge,
In the 1950s I remember the signal was constant lit on the Detour wye. I could see it just prior to going across the old four lane highway the and the old bridge, especially the tire noise over the steel grates.