Howard Wrote:
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> Tie Plate Wrote:
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> > I love seeing a reporter regurgitate
> information
> > he/she doesn't understand. I'm assuming the
> > inspectors based their findings on the maximum
> > load the structures could conceivably face with
> > modern cars. Doubtful they'll ever see
> anything
> > heavier than empty cars headed to/from storage
> and
> > some deadheading passenger equipment heading up
> to
> > Santa Cruz. Pegging it at just over a million
> > more than outlined in a study a number of years
> > ago looks like getting off easy. Of course this
> > proper inspection should have been done when
> they
> > were still negotiating, but it appears this is
> SOP
> > for that county agency.
>
> You are spot on. I watched the entire meeting and
> Jason Hoppin from the Sentinel incorrectly
> reported the details on the bridges and
> misrepresented everything Dan Davis JL Patterson
> said.

Not to mention that SP ran cement and coal and six-axle locomotive consists over them without any problems.