mook Wrote:
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> Looking at these photos (that bottom shot is
> awesome!) and yesterdays -- I don't think that
> amount of deterioration happened overnight, or
> even over the last few Sierra Northern years. It
> takes a while to lose that much steel to rust,
> even in seacoast conditions. IOW UP and SP
> probably didn't take care of the place either. I
> don't know about Capitola but I suspect that if
> you want to be able to run 286K# cars and that
> rust spot isn't the only one the bridge has to be
> replaced, probably with concrete. If it was even
> almost that bad in 1989 how did it not fall down?



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