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[Conan71]

That was a rough crossing on the BA where the lumber yard was, yikes!

[dbacks fan]

That was a rough crossing on the BA where the lumber yard was, yikes!

Yes, guaranteed to loosen fillings, remove tire weights and hubcaps, and make you schedule an alignment the next day.

[OpenYourEyesTulsa]

The baseball field looks good but then I scrolled around and saw the acres of surface parking downtown

[sauerkraut]

Yeah those are bad tracks, in fact many roads are in bad shape. A bit over a year ago I took my truck in for an alignment, everything was tight, Last week I noticed bad tire ware on my right side, I jacked up the wheel and felt for play and my right side upper ball joint was about to fall out, the wheel was very lose. I was surprised how fast a good ball joint went to a bad ball joint. I also ruined a tire. Bad winters are hard on our streets.

[bugo]

Yes, that was one of two spurs that went north of the tracks from the BA. The one you are refering to went into the fair grounds and was abandoned when they built the IPE/QT Expo. The other one was a short one just befor Yale that went to a lumber yard where what was KVOO's building is. I can remember as a kid my parents having to stop at that particular crossing.

If you look at the westbound off ramp to Harvard you can see a small portion of the old railbed and the patch on the off ramp for the tracks.

Were there flashing lights and gates at the railroad crossings?

[dbacks fan]

Were there flashing lights and gates at the railroad crossings?

They had lights similar to what they use for cross walks at schools, but no gates or arms.

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p309/kallsop2/crosswalk.jpg

Something like this /\. It had a standard that was between the tracks and the highway and the arm went out over the highway to support two three light traffic lights.