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There's a Rogue Railroad Bridge In Pennsylvania!

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, October 17, 2022 9:26 PM

mudchicken
He is a town celebrity lurking in Enid, Oklahoma 

Thanks!  I'm splitting a gut over the rest of your post as well!    Laugh Laugh Laugh

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, October 17, 2022 6:00 PM

He is a town celebrity lurking in Enid, Oklahoma  (see post above).... He helped another trucker make a career decision today. (and he has his own facebook page)

I believe he has appeared in the forum before. (City paid to paint the bridge with Union Pacific's permission in 2016.. Open deck-deck girder bridge. Originally built by Rock Island circa 1889 IIRC w/shallow sewers below the pavement.) Gets "fed" every 4-6 weeks, steady diet sustained by trucking industry.Dunce

He has a cousin here in Denver (Concrete Box Culvert Under BNSF (CB&Q)) that likes a varied diet of box trucks & Tow trucks w/ equipment on trailers. (Colorado 265 [Brighton Blvd] at York Street, North of the Stockyards) with two other buddies nearby.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, October 17, 2022 5:52 PM

That's hilarious!  Man, if you don't get the message after seeing that!

Say, where is it?  It's a work of genius!

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, October 17, 2022 5:47 PM

Hanging a low-clearance sign could prevent Maine Street mishapsHanging a low-clearance sign could prevent Maine Street mishapsSee the source image

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, October 16, 2022 7:17 AM

CHI   --===OMG.some trucking companies have a section that deals just with routings.  Had one truck that came off I-55 and to get to receiver had to back down alley 3 blocks to receiver.  Even had to use flaggers crossing the various streets.   heard took about 3 hours

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Saturday, October 15, 2022 10:12 AM

You've got that right about Chicago.  I was working many years ago for a new home improvement store when a supplier called asking for directions.  She knew that her semi wouldn't fit under the C&NW/CTA overpass at Harlem Avenue and asked for a bypass route.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Saturday, October 15, 2022 10:01 AM

mudchicken

Meanwhile, on Maine Street in Enid, Oklahoma.....

 

   Off Topic   Oops - Sign

And then you are inflicted with the various Highway Dept. 'Buibbas', and their compadres, "The Paving 'Gnomes".....Whistling   Who wih their huge tracked paving grinders; can take up a number of inches of asphalt, in several short hours. 

        They leave it their buddies, The Highway Dept. Engineer Bubbas; They are tasked with the replacement  of those signs that tell the approaching traffic, that there is, either an overheight, or a no-height obstacle in their path.....Mostly that signage is done in English; while most of the illegal truck drivers speak/read something else....Sigh

 At which point, some unsuspecting 18 wheeled trucker, is reduced to using his 'real world' height test....either 13'6' , for most van trailers, or 14'+, for the in-attentive bull rack, ...    Chicago, being a prime example, of the  'Real World Testing' of truck heights....SighSighBang Head

 

 


 

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, October 15, 2022 3:08 AM

"The Viaduct" in Milford, MI doesn't have the reputation other such bridges do.  The clearance was kinda low, but the road under it was eventually rebuilt and a number of layers of paving were removed, increasing said clearance.

Back in the 1960's, I recall an incident involving a truck used to haul masonary products, before the advent of the hydraulic cranes you now see used.  Those trucks had an I beam supported over the bed which carried the chainfall used to lift the items in question.

Had one come through under the overpass one day, only to discover that the I beam wouldn't clear.  He hit the viaduct, which stopped him dead in his tracks - I heard it took out the transmission.

The viaduct dates back to the Pere Marquette.  Because of the angle of the crossing, Main Street takes a significant "zig" there.

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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, October 14, 2022 11:40 PM

Meanwhile, on Maine Street in Enid, Oklahoma.....

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Posted by SALfan1 on Friday, October 14, 2022 10:03 PM

(With tongue firmly in cheek) Vicious highway bridge!  Roaming the countryside, hunting down innocent truckers.

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Posted by caldreamer on Friday, October 7, 2022 8:06 AM

The old PRR high line bridge over Queen Street in Chambersburg, PA used to eat trucks until they lowered the road to provide additonal clearance.  The road was clearly marked with the height, but truck drivers did not heed it.  They would deflate the trucks tires to help get the truck unstuck.

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Posted by Backshop on Friday, October 7, 2022 6:57 AM

More poor writing.  The writer calls it a tractor-trailer when it is obviously a straight truck.

There's a Youtube channel devoted to one low underpass.  It seems like the vast majority of trucks that hit it are rentals.

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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, October 6, 2022 11:23 PM

On King Street in Toronto, there is a rail bridge just east of Atlantic avenue. On King are height detectors but there are none on Atlantic and one day about 15 years ago a truck loaded with brewing kettles from a closed-down brewery drove up Atlantic, turned right and got stuck at the bridge. It took out the streetcar wire so I was a long time getting to work that day. 

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, October 6, 2022 11:10 PM

Along CSX's Old Main Line in Monrovia, MD there is a low, narrow bridge on MD 75 - Green Valley Road - the road is a little over a mile from a Costco Distribution Center.  Drivers watch their GPS, not the miles of low clearance sign that are place on the road on both sides of the underpass and the underpass generally catches a truck every couple of weeks.  The bridge hasn't lost yet!

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, October 6, 2022 10:53 PM

The Onondaga Parkway in Liverpool, NY (just outside Syracuse) has a low clearance RR bridge where the Massena line passes over the road.  It has caught a lot of trucks, despite more than adequate signage.  It also got one of those mega busses, and I think that had tragic results.  The driver was lost.

I think there's a bridge in Defiance, OH that has a taste for overheight trucks, and there's another somewhere that has its own FB page.

I recently saw images of a bridge which was preceded by telltales.

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Posted by mvlandsw on Thursday, October 6, 2022 9:40 PM

 The B&O had a bridge like that in Pittsburgh on the line to the downtown station. The bridge survived all the trucker's attempts to raze it until it was raised after the line was converted to a bike trail.

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, October 6, 2022 6:19 PM

Truck Drivers cannot read low height Warning Signs.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Thursday, October 6, 2022 6:06 PM

Flintlock76

 
     What you have there is a faiure to mainiain " Situational Awareness" Whistling
 
The underpass is definitely marked 10'10"  ....Unless there is signage, [mis-marked for height?] somewhat farther away than the shown, posted signage.... That truck driver has some 'splaining to do... Sigh Sigh
  

 

 


 

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There's a Rogue Railroad Bridge In Pennsylvania!
Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, October 6, 2022 4:56 PM

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