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REM3Night wrote:The bridge is gone. They planned to move it at 10 AM - it wouldn't come loose - it finally moved at about 6:15 PM. The fixed end came loose easily but the moving end wouldn't "move". Tonight they are installing pre-cast sections on the abutments.
The vehicle that moved it had 80 wheels on both units.
Ray
adamj023 wrote:The Cherry lane bridge in Carle place has a slightly higher clearance and only two tracks. It also has remnants of the low platform as well. I guess this is one of the other bridges which needs to be done for the main line.
newkirk wrote:I just returned from the Post Ave site and as of 8:30 this morning (Sunday 10/22), the new bridge is NOT in place.
They had to pour concrete for the footings last night. Concrete needs to dry and also cure.
This is going to be razor thin close. Hope tomorrow mornings AM rush hour gets off without a hitch.
Got my fingers crossed !
Morisot wrote:I watched for about 5 hours yesterday. Those people worked very hard! The job they did was awesome!
I saw a couple of trains, carrying hundreds of people over that bridge, around 9PM Friday night. (The last train was scheduled at 11 PM!) So, between 11 PM Friday night and 7 PM Saturday night they had to cut the tracks and the 3rd rail (high voltage electricity) and sever tons of concrete and steel to slide the old bridge south, on a narrow road, and then move the whole thing at a right angle and delicately place it into the station parking lot ---- leaving the surrounding area in a condition that, with some furious clean-up, they could truck-in and hoist (with a crane the height of a tall apartment building) huge, precast abutments and bolt them onto the understructure that they have been working on all these months.
And then they could do the delicate right-angle dance step in the other direction and move the tons of the new bridge that they had constructed in the parking lot and slide it into place (around 1 PM today, Sunday.) Now they have until 4 AM Monday morning to align, connect, and fill everything they have to, to allow the trains to resume running.
It is amazing what they can accomplish in such a TIGHT TIME LINE! (And it's like surgery --- you want everyone who may be needed to tend to your circumstances to be there, while the operation is going on.)
Head-end View wrote:And as I stated previously, I'm betting that the new bridge, despite being two feet higher, will get struck partly due to the road incline on the north side. We'll see!
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