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Re: Oakland WB/EB Main Lines At 7th Street Question
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 11-22-2020 - 15:54
TMer Wrote:
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> Well narrow it down a bit. There was signal bridge
> over the mainlines between West Grand and 20th.
> Here's a picture I labelled the putative tracks
> with letters--not the most pristine high
> resolution Lexus-type aerial photographs, if you
> know what I mean. This is 1965 aerial photograph.
> Photobob has a shot from 1962, appears to show
> five tracks under the signal bridge but maybe a
> track is hiding he was on bayside.
>
> Anyways, based on Dr. Z's and the SPINS the
> labelling here is:
>
> A: track 1/westbound electric
> B: track 2/eastbound electric
> C:track 3/westbound main
> D:track 4/eastbound main
> E: unknown, not covered in the SPINS
>
> One more word on the SPINS. They show the wb/eb
> electric lines on one page which shows the area
> between 7th and 10th Sts.
>
> [i.postimg.cc]
If that's what your SPINS book shows, it's incorrect.
1 and 2 were never electrified, only 5 and 6 were, for Interurban Electric Railway trains. That how they got there names.
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> Well narrow it down a bit. There was signal bridge
> over the mainlines between West Grand and 20th.
> Here's a picture I labelled the putative tracks
> with letters--not the most pristine high
> resolution Lexus-type aerial photographs, if you
> know what I mean. This is 1965 aerial photograph.
> Photobob has a shot from 1962, appears to show
> five tracks under the signal bridge but maybe a
> track is hiding he was on bayside.
>
> Anyways, based on Dr. Z's and the SPINS the
> labelling here is:
>
> A: track 1/westbound electric
> B: track 2/eastbound electric
> C:track 3/westbound main
> D:track 4/eastbound main
> E: unknown, not covered in the SPINS
>
> One more word on the SPINS. They show the wb/eb
> electric lines on one page which shows the area
> between 7th and 10th Sts.
>
> [i.postimg.cc]
If that's what your SPINS book shows, it's incorrect.
1 and 2 were never electrified, only 5 and 6 were, for Interurban Electric Railway trains. That how they got there names.
