Hutch 7.62 Wrote:
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
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> > > Why was the bridge double tracked on the East
> > Palo
> > > Alto side but not on the Newark side.
> >
> > Just for the benefit of those reading this
> thread
> > who aren't familiar with the line, the bridge
> > itself wasn't double track, only the line from
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> The bridge on the E.P.A side is double track but
> only on the steel span there is also a spur on the
> Newark side before the wooden trestle
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> Intresting side not ....In the center span there
> is tons of paperback books and barrels of grease
> and oil
> > Redwood Jct. to Belle Haven approaching it from
> > the west side was.

I'm sorry, but that's not correct. There never was any double track east of the spring switch at Belle Haven, on the bridge or otherwise. There is indeed a spur on the span that was used for MofW, but no double track.