Re: Bay Bridge memories
Author: mook
Date: 09-28-2013 - 20:22

The pictures I've seen of the lower deck (in a couple of Key System books) show an off-balance setup. Tracks are on one side (the north?). 3-lane road is on the other side. 3-lane because that's how passing was done Back Then - suicide lane. Tracks were *not* in the middle of the road.

I was barely noticing things when the tracks were removed and the bridge converted to 5 lanes each way - I'm thinking 1958-9-60? Do remember the "Hump" when the deck was being lowered through the tunnel so there would be clearance on the upper deck for trucks - given the panic caused by a simple slow-order S-curve in the East Span construction, I could just imagine what the lawyers now (and the zoned-out drivers) would do with a "hump" like we had back then. Lower deck of the western span still has the excess height needed for the overhead for the trains.



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  Re: Bridge trains--link is here stash 09-26-2013 - 16:12
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here Dragoman 09-26-2013 - 18:53
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here KRK 09-27-2013 - 10:21
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here Tokens 09-27-2013 - 15:04
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here Margaret (SP fan) 09-26-2013 - 18:56
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here Dragoman 09-26-2013 - 21:28
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here Margaret (SP fan) 09-27-2013 - 19:56
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here Bruce Butler 09-27-2013 - 20:29
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here BOB R 09-27-2013 - 21:41
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here Ken Shattock (KRK) 09-28-2013 - 05:33
  Bay Bridge memories Margaret (SP fan) 09-28-2013 - 10:29
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here Tom Moungovan 09-28-2013 - 07:33
  Re: Bridge trains--link is here George Andrews 09-28-2013 - 09:38
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Margaret (SP fan) 09-28-2013 - 11:25
  Re: Bay Bridge memories George Andrews 09-28-2013 - 17:39
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Margaret (SP fan) 09-28-2013 - 20:20
  Re: Bay Bridge memories mook 09-28-2013 - 20:28
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Margaret (SP fan) 09-28-2013 - 22:33
  Re: Bay Bridge memories I remember other pix 09-28-2013 - 23:26
  Re: Bay Bridge memories (corrections) Ken Shattock (KRK) 09-29-2013 - 09:00
  Re: Bay Bridge memories mook 09-28-2013 - 20:22
  Re: Bay Bridge memories mook 09-28-2013 - 20:24
  Re: steam on the bridge Tom Moungovan 09-29-2013 - 07:21
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Dr Zarkoff 09-29-2013 - 09:48
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Margaret (SP fan) 09-29-2013 - 10:59
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Dr Zarkoff 09-29-2013 - 11:33
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Ken Shattock (KRK) 09-29-2013 - 14:05
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Al Stangenberger 09-29-2013 - 18:16
  Re: Bay Bridge memories stash 09-29-2013 - 22:00
  Re: Bay Bridge memories Dr Zarkoff 09-30-2013 - 00:58
  Re: Bay Bridge memories mook 09-29-2013 - 18:20
  Re: Bay Bridge memories WAF 09-29-2013 - 18:23
  Re: Bay Bridge memories stash 09-29-2013 - 22:07
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' Ken Shattock (KRK) 09-29-2013 - 19:33
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' WAF 09-29-2013 - 20:38
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' Margaret (SP fan) 09-29-2013 - 20:52
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' stash 09-29-2013 - 21:45
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' stash 09-29-2013 - 22:05
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' Margaret (SP fan) 09-29-2013 - 22:55
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' Margaret (SP fan) 09-29-2013 - 23:02
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' BOB R 09-30-2013 - 21:12
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' Wondering Wanderer 09-30-2013 - 23:36
  Re: Bay Bridge memories-- The 'HUMP' Tom Moungovan 10-01-2013 - 06:49


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