Passenger Trains > Crossing The Salinas River

Number 11 rolls across the Salinas River at the East Garrison of Camp Roberts near Bradley on Monday.

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And the engineer is waving.

Excellent photo. Which RR (current & predecessor if known)? Thanks.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/18 04:35 by Roadbed.

Why just one engine on #11 and isn't the engineer hanging out the window a little too far?

Roadbed Wrote:
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> Excellent photo. Which RR (current & predecessor
> if known)? Thanks.

UP -the former SP coast line.

Dave

DFWJIM Wrote:
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> Why just one engine on #11 and isn't the engineer
> hanging out the window a little too far?


Plus only 7 cars !! guess there is a shortage of passenger cars...

SanJoaquinEngr Wrote:
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> DFWJIM Wrote:
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> > Why just one engine on #11 and isn't the
> engineer
> > hanging out the window a little too far?
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> Plus only 7 cars !! guess there is a shortage of
> passenger cars...

...or the absence of demand for rail passenger service...

SanJoaquinEngr Wrote:
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> DFWJIM Wrote:
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> > Why just one engine on #11 and isn't the
> engineer
> > hanging out the window a little too far?
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> Plus only 7 cars !! guess there is a shortage of
> passenger cars...

It’s hard to tell with the bridge, but I think there are nine cars as is usual in this new post-PPC world. Baggage, dorm, 2x sleeper, diner, biz coach, SSL, 2x coach. When I rode at he end of January sleepers were pretty full, but plenty of room in the three coaches.

Dave

There is only one engine because the lead unit was damaged in a boulder strike and set out.

There’s a post about the incident a few days back.

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What is the hogger fishing for in the river?

Classic SP masonry work on those bridge piers.

Lots of interesting details in the photo, don't see this one very often.

Anybody know when the steel plate sections were added. No doubt a big time flood of some sort.

t4p!

ColdRainAndSnow Wrote:
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> What is the hogger fishing for in the river?

Fish for the diner.

Thanks for posting great pictures.

That bridge has a little history from the 70s. We had been complaining about a rough spot where the engine felt like it was a low spot on the land side. Well, they looked and said it was okay. Well, Tommy Ware called Dave W and asked him if he could take a look. Dave was the Road Master in Paso Robles. Great guy and he went on up the ladder in later years. Well, he was down in the river bed when Tommy came thru on the ECP. Dave asked Tommy where this was and Tommy told him. Well, he was doing 60 and when he felt the engine dip and he told him on the radio. Well, he didn't have to. The head man was looking back and everyone in the river bed was running away from the bridge.

Well, it turned out a major steel, upright beam was broken. You couldn't see it until the weight opened the break. When the engine went over the place that beam dipped down about 4 to 6 inches. Well, Dave slapped a 10 mph on the bridge and then they built up a crib from the river bed, up to the bridge. It was fine but the story didn't really end there. They called the steel outfit in the City that had made it and many, many other bridges for the SP. They couldn't do anything in the City, (SF shut down most of those type of businesses)

It took 3 weeks but they got one made in the east bay and they had it in in one day. You just have to imagine what that looked like from down in the river.

And this was the second bridge. You can see the up rights for the other one, on up the river to the south. It washed out along time ago and was replaced by the present one. Over at McKay there was another crossing at the end of a wye that went to a coal outfit back up one of the canyons. Almost to Coalinga. The Salinas was called the upside down river. Never saw much water, it was all under the surface. The other fact was it ran from the south, north towards Salinas and the Ocean.


Nudge



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/18 16:41 by spnudge.

Thanks for the great story.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/18 13:05 by darkcloud.

Can only imagine the surprise for the folks watching from below, great story.

Another great photo there Brian!

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