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Article #14471Re: Draw spans on the Potomac.
From: Scott M. Kozel
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:00
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John R Cambron <fairland@mail.*chesapeake*.net> wrote: > > Scott M. Kozel wrote: > > > > The drawspan was on the northbound former-Rochambeau Bridge, as it was > > the first built, about 1950. When it was redecked in 1975, the drawspan > > was eliminated. > > The draw span is still there Scott, it is just locked closed the tower > is still there but the controls been removed from the tower, as I once > got in to the tower in the late 1970s. But where is the open grid deck that is used to make bascule spans light enough to raise easily? If the existing bascule span was locked closed, then it must have been overlaid with a concrete asphalt-topped roadway. -- Scott M. Kozel kozelsm@richmond.infi.net Highway and Transportation History Websites Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm PHL area http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7890,c056a234a9b7604f X-Google-Attributes: gidf7890,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,c056a234a9b7604f X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: "Scott M. Kozel" <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> Subject: Re: Draw spans on the Potomac. Date: 1998/06/27 Message-ID: <359483F8.2D76@richmond.infi.net> X-Deja-AN: 366521038 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <358c6b43.34943713@news.erols.com> <358C8891.897@richmond.infi.net> <6mmc76$agc@enews4.newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: kozelsm@richmond.infi.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Balanced Transportation Systems Newsgroups: dc.driving,misc.transport.road