Southern Pacific In Trainz

Hi Paul,

Don't forget the Dumbarton RR bridge.
Incase you had not noticed, I have been working on my WP/SP route from Stockton to Milpitas circa 1962 for a couple of years now. Portals are used south of Milpitas/Drawbridge, west of Newark and at the Hayward/ Union City line at the East Bay end. Also portals are used in the central valley to the north of Stockton and south of Tracy. I am using selective compression, about 3 to 1. It is a MAJOR rework of the "Altamont Express" route from the DLS.
Many moons ago there were posts considering building the SJ to SF run. I don't know if anyone has built it.
I once worked in San Carlos next to the tracks (GTE Lenkurt) and also remember those commuter trains. By the way, perhaps the last use of cab forwards were on that track pulling commuter trains.
 
The cab forward was by lilb. It is part of the package of locomotives that was tweaked by philskene to work without error in TS12. Like 90% of the steam locos in the game it has the safety valve problem.
 
I've seen the old Dumbarton Railroad Bridge several times before. Never saw trains run down it before it was abandoned in 1982; twelve years before I was born, which was 1994. So it happened at the time when SP was on a steady decline and tried to prune its branch lines to mitigate the free fall but to no avail.
 
I walked out onto the Dumbarton RR bridge and climbed up to the control shack (or what ever it is called).
Back in 1967 I had a girl friend who had girl friend who was having problems with her boy friend who worked for the SP operating the swing section of the bridge at night.
My girl friend figured that she needed to talk to him face to face so she conviced me to drive her out to the bridge one night so that she could do so.
We parked on the levy next to the east end and walked out onto the bridge to the stairs that went up on top to the shack.
She chickened out and would not go up so I did to ask him to climb down to talk to her. He was not expecting us and was a bit startled when I knocked. It was good that he was not armed.
He gave me the 25 cent tour before climbing down while leaving me in the shack. There was a "phone" dated about 1912 that connected him to SP in Newark. The shack was lit by a kerosine lamp. Probably nothing had changed up there since the bridge was built.
This job worked well for him since he attended college during the day and studied on the job at night. No boat traffic at night so there was nothing to disturb him, except me.
While he was down stairs I observed that, working there in the middle of the bay area, one was all alone with the closest other person on the Dumbarton State 84 bridge to the north. You were surrounded by lights but none near you.
While waiting I fiddled with the kerosene lamp and soon had the flame shooting out the top of the glass chimney. That would not have been a problem except it was up against a pull down 50 year old window shade. The flamable shade got smoked/scorched before I could pull the lamp away from it. That was the night I almost burned down the Dumbarton railroad bridge. :eek::o
 
SuperFudd said:
I walked out onto the Dumbarton RR bridge and climbed up to the control shack (or what ever it is called).
Back in 1967 I had a girl friend who had girl friend who was having problems with her boy friend who worked for the SP operating the swing section of the bridge at night.
My girl friend figured that she needed to talk to him face to face so she conviced me to drive her out to the bridge one night so that she could do so.
We parked on the levy next to the east end and walked out onto the bridge to the stairs that went up on top to the shack.
She chickened out and would not go up so I did to ask him to climb down to talk to her. He was not expecting us and was a bit startled when I knocked. It was good that he was not armed.
He gave me the 25 cent tour before climbing down while leaving me in the shack. There was a "phone" dated about 1912 that connected him to SP in Newark. The shack was lit by a kerosine lamp. Probably nothing had changed up there since the bridge was built.
This job worked well for him since he attended college during the day and studied on the job at night. No boat traffic at night so there was nothing to disturb him, except me.
While he was down stairs I observed that, working there in the middle of the bay area, one was all alone with the closest other person on the Dumbarton State 84 bridge to the north. You were surrounded by lights but none near you.
While waiting I fiddled with the kerosene lamp and soon had the flame shooting out the top of the glass chimney. That would not have been a problem except it was up against a pull down 50 year old window shade. The flamable shade got smoked/scorched before I could pull the lamp away from it. That was the night I almost burned down the Dumbarton railroad bridge. :eek::o
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You would do them a favor, isn't there some bridge there that they blew a while back? Or was that the old San Mateo bridge?
 
That was the old Dumbarton bridge lift span. If I remember correctly it was in the early 70's. They did blow the old San Matao lift span also but that was in the late 50's, early 60's before I was born.

Bill
 
That was the old State 84 Dumbarton highway bridge. The RR bridge is still intact although the tresel across the flats at the west end has burned.
The San Mateo Bridge (state 92) lift section was in use until June of 68. I don't think it was "blown". It was lowered onto a barge and sent to South America.
 
Here's a SP train running down the Desoto Sub . The SP and the MP use to share joint trackage before the be yellow brother got them both
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​Tyat reminds me, I still owe you all for keeping the thread in good standing. Well I guess it's time for everyone to pull out there wish lists.
 
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SP train number 71 a triweekly fastfreight is jointly operated by the SP and UB lines which explains the UB caboose.
Behind 2 sd70macs

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