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08-24-2022 - 21:33
Mike Pechner
For those folks that want to know what happened instead of reading what the 4 clowns above have commented, here is the official reason, direct off the GGRM website......I don't hide behind a handle li
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03-12-2021 - 11:28
CCTGM
This is a very old report and the Baykeeper organization nor the News source are qualified to inspect bridges. Every railroads I have worked and when I managed railroads I made sure we had a compreh
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03-12-2021 - 11:01
WebDigger
Just FYI, here are places where the phrase "bridge inspection" shows up on AP -- http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion/search.php?1,search=bridge+inspection,page=1,match_type=PHRASE,match_dates=0,ma
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03-12-2021 - 09:47
FUD
Can't paint bridges because of EPA? Not quite, though there's a kernel of truth as with most truthy things.
Lead paint is verboten now. If a bridge has it, the lead paint has to be removed before a
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09-02-2020 - 14:22
Smart
Shortline Sammie Wrote:
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> 3.2 million is INSANE! We looked at it right after
> Hood River County placed the lien on it a year ago
> and when
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09-01-2020 - 11:52
Wheeler Dealer
Wait until they're desperate to recover any money they can; then, offer $500,000 - or a lot less.
Shortline Sammie Wrote:
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> 3.2 million is
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09-01-2020 - 07:38
Shortline Sammie
3.2 million is INSANE! We looked at it right after Hood River County placed the lien on it a year ago and when you consider track condition, grade crossing signal maintenance and FRA bridge inspection
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07-01-2020 - 13:49
Bruce Kelly
As of last week, POVA said their wood products customers in Idaho and the locomotive shop in Usk should sustain them for the time being. It does seem like they could get by with stationing their power
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04-04-2020 - 13:11
Shortline Sammie
I can't imagine any short line wanting the liability of that large trestle particularly in light of the recent FRA Bridge Inspection Regulations which require every bridge to be inspected annually by
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05-26-2018 - 19:59
Graham Buxton
The North Pend Oreille Lions Club at one time sponsored occasional passenger excursions on the Port of Pend Oreille tracks at Ione WA (former MILW branch), however those trains were forced to end by t
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06-30-2017 - 21:57
Cctgm
The bridge regulations are not that hard to comply with, an outside Bridge engineering firm can be your bridge engineer and do all the proper calculations for the bridge capacity and most of the regul
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06-30-2017 - 17:28
Shortline Sammie
hat immediately comes to mind is the POVASP 0-6-0 Wrote:
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06-30-2017 - 12:06
SP 0-6-0
SP 0-6-0 Wrote:
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> Has anyone seen an article in one of the trade
> magazines (like Progressive RR'ing) that
> summarizes the new FRA bridge
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05-09-2015 - 14:43
Shortline Sammie
I believe that the SCRTC owns the line and holds the franchise (Certificate of Public Necessity) from the U S Surface Transportation Board and as such has the Common Carrier responsibility to provide
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10-20-2014 - 10:57
SCMBGM
Being that the railroad is owned by a public agency, a lot of the questions being asked can be found at the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission's website. Click Here for information o
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10-07-2014 - 10:37
OldPoleBurner
Speaking as one who's work was often subject to to CPUC and/or FRA oversight, I can add this:
Although very knowledgeable and perhaps fully qualified in some areas, PUC "inspectors" are typically
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10-06-2014 - 18:22
M. Harris
For a glimpse at what CalTrans handles for bridge inspection throughout California, start here:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/structur/strmaint/
This CA state agency has been inspecting bridges for o
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10-06-2014 - 17:46
mook
I appreciate that, and suspect that most railroads (large and small) are closer to you than to the La Selva bridge (before the work that Howard's been documenting). PUC frankly looks like it's reactin
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10-06-2014 - 16:57
Dave Buccolo
I take offense to the article and to Paul Kings remarks, here on the
CCT the bridges are inspected every month by a qualified inspector every month well in excess of the FRA requirements and by a ce
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10-06-2014 - 16:55
J Mann
This was probably kicked off after someone looked at the La Selva Beach bridge. That's the only RR bridge I've ever seen that looked scary due to maintenance.
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10-06-2014 - 15:56
BOB2
This has every appearance of an effort to make us "feel good" about the safety of RR bridges by largely auditing reporting, without much of an aggressive on site engineering inspection, except maybe w
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10-06-2014 - 15:23
J
There have been a number of mishaps over the years involving bridges - pretty much in every case a bridge has failed after a derailment. Notable exceptions include the derailment of the solid booster
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10-06-2014 - 15:01
mook
The article was quite clear that the PUC inspectors, like the FRA inspector who hardly has time to look at much in CA, are not doing detailed engineering inspections. The railroads are supposed to do
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10-06-2014 - 14:50
SPKid
I tend to agree with the conductor. What incentive would the railroads have to allow bridges, or any other track assets to deteriorate, or become unsafe? And before the PUC hires any bridge inspector
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10-06-2014 - 14:24
theconductor
Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> What a pathetic excuse for "inspections:"! Looks
> as though
> the anti-"gummit" right-wingers have succeeded
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10-06-2014 - 12:09
Local 1000
I am also fed up with the right wing control of California! They are cutting everything! They must be stopped!
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10-06-2014 - 11:44
Margaret (SP fan)
What a pathetic excuse for "inspections:"! Looks as though
the anti-"gummit" right-wingers have succeeded beyond
their wildest dreams: cut, cut, cut government funding so
that there are never enou
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10-06-2014 - 09:19
mook
This has been mentioned here before, but it looks like the California PUC will actually start its railroad bridge inspection program soon. Though they are still trying to figure out where all the brid
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