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Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle
Author: Hutch 7.62
Date: 07-05-2012 - 22:42

fkrock Wrote:
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> Technically the builders of the waterway would
> have been requiured to build a multi-million
> dollar railroad bridge. However it was much
> cheaper to arrange for WP, owner of SN, to get
> trackage rights on SP.
>
> The line that was abandoned had little future
> value to WP. Industrial defelopment was unlikely.
> The railroad was paying property tax on the line.
>
> WP wanted to maintain access to the future deep
> water port on the Sacramento River that was part
> of the Solano County master plan. Access to the
> former SN line from SP at Canon provided that.
>
> Today most of the SN right of way from Canon all
> the way to the river belongs to the Western
> Railway Museum.


Thanks that's great info. I have personally wonder why the SN did not make the state pay for relocation much the way SP did during the Shasta dam project

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  Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle KRK 07-02-2012 - 16:08
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle Tom Moungovan 07-02-2012 - 16:17
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle Thanks, Ken 07-02-2012 - 21:41
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle fkrock 07-03-2012 - 09:46
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle Dr Zarkoff 07-03-2012 - 14:13
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle The Montezuma Yardmaster 07-04-2012 - 11:08
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle Craig Tambo 07-04-2012 - 11:25
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle The Montezuma Yardmaster 07-04-2012 - 13:09
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle Graham Buxton 07-04-2012 - 11:26
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle > Hershey link Graham Buxton 07-04-2012 - 11:28
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle > Hershey link Craig Tambo 07-04-2012 - 11:46
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle The Montezuma Yardmaster 07-04-2012 - 10:28
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle Hutch 7.62 07-04-2012 - 22:13
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle fkrock 07-05-2012 - 09:11
  Re: Sacramento Northern's Lisbon Trestle Hutch 7.62 07-05-2012 - 22:42


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