HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> Jon Porter Wrote:
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> Any
> > idea how bridge tenders and material got out
> there
> > and up the two stories to the building?
>
>
> There is also road that goes out to a building at
> the Hetch Hetchy pipes and from there there is a
> stairway up to the trestle on the east end that
> has been mostly removed. I believe that was the
> more common way for the bridge tenders to get to
> the swing span. From the swing span to the house
> there is a very narrow walkway up to the house
> with Sara Winchester mystery house like short
> steps.

That's correct. The incoming employee would park his or her private vehichle at Newark Tower and drive a company vehicle west on old Hwy. 84 to the access road that led to the end of the trestle, then walk west on the bridge. After doing their turnover, the outgoing employee would reverse the process.