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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 15:35:22 No.1421780 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1421781 >>1421785 >>1421791 >>1421803 >>1421967 >>1421973 >>1423683 >>1425516 >>1428538 >>1428636

Half of all grittiness in cities is rusted and rotting rail bridges. Why the FUCK arent these rail companies cleaning up their shit? Nothing says "im in the ghetto" more than a ROW that hasnt been painted in 50 years

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 15:36:36 No.1421781 Report

Quoted By: >>1422081

>>1421780
They care about only profits to the absolute maximum. There is no money made in painting something that works just fine.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 16:12:08 No.1421785 Report

Quoted By: >>1421853 >>1422242 >>1423683

>>1421780
When your infrastructure permeates through an entire city with dozens of visible bridges you should have a responsibility to keep it maintained.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 16:20:45 No.1421789 Report

Quoted By: >>1421889

Paint isn't what it used to be so what you are talking about is a jobs program.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 16:23:04 No.1421791 Report

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>>1421780
still looks better then that shitty road

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 16:25:38 No.1421794 Report

Quoted By: >>1421802 >>1421853

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 16:39:15 No.1421802 Report

Quoted By: >>1422242

>>1421794
Erotic fair ad next to children's toy ad...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 16:42:14 No.1421803 Report

Quoted By: >>1421807

>>1421780
Knew this was Chicago before i even clicked the thumbnail.

The city should declare these hunks of shit blighted and take care of the upkeep themselves, then send a bill to the rail company.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 16:51:21 No.1421807 Report

Quoted By: >>1421809 >>1421835 >>1423683

>>1421803
fuck chicago

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 16:54:11 No.1421809 Report

Quoted By: >>1421839 >>1423683

>>1421807

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 17:19:47 No.1421824 Report

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Literally anyone can paint. Southside has 30% unemployment. Offer them 12 per hour to paint. All bridges would be painted in 6 months.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 17:29:54 No.1421828 Report

Quoted By: >>1421875 >>1421978

I like rusted steel. We should have more of it. You suburbanoids have no taste

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 17:31:51 No.1421831 Report

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I see old C & O logos on the rusty CSX bridges near my house. I’ve seen some awesome old photos of railroads advertising their passenger and fast freight trains on the sides of girder bridges. Of course that would never happen today but there should be some kind of public art to prettify these eyesores, though I myself like the rusty aesthetic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 17:33:41 No.1421832 Report

Quoted By: >>1421846

And yet the focus is always on building new, not maintaining the existing infrastructure. My podunk little city seems to be the opposite in that regard. Hasn't built anything meaningful in decades, but has been replacing the decks on old bridges for the past decade.

Half the time that includes the trusses. With modern construction and waterproofing standards, hopefully they won't get to that state again.

On the new P3 motorway just outside the city the builder went the extra step of putting epoxy paint on all the concrete. When you have a financial incentive to reduce long term maintenance costs, you're willing to spend a little more up front.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 17:37:11 No.1421835 Report

Quoted By: >>1421839 >>1421975

>>1421807
I called and complained about the Clybourn Metra station having rickety stairs. They actually showed up a few weeks later and completely rebuilt the stairwell. I wonder if they’d address the rail bridges if people bitched about it

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 17:49:20 No.1421839 Report

Quoted By: >>1423683

>>1421809
>>1421835
Well Metra is owned by the same people who own the CTA so it can be expected that stuff would get fixed.. not so hopeful as these CN,BNSF,CSX privately owned tracks

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 18:12:11 No.1421845 Report

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Railroads don't fix shit until an incident.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 18:14:04 No.1421846 Report

Quoted By: >>1422407

>>1421832
New construction has more room for graft, corruption, and speculation.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 18:17:09 No.1421848 Report

Quoted By: >>1421854 >>1421863 >>1421977 >>1423683 >>1425884

And what happens with abandoned lines? Who's responsible for this?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 18:25:01 No.1421851 Report

Quoted By: >>1421981

My city is making an effort to repaint all the abandoned/barely used rail bridges

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 18:30:46 No.1421853 Report

Quoted By: >>1421881

>>1421785
They are maintained though

>>1421794
Gay

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 18:30:55 No.1421854 Report

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>>1421848
Seize and turn into heavy commuter rail.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 18:50:01 No.1421863 Report

Quoted By: >>1421900

>>1421848
There is an entire legal scheme to deal with abondoned railroads.

The real secret though is it's dumb for companies to abondon their ROWs in case they need it in the future. So most railroads are held on to for decades in case they ever want or need to use it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 19:18:46 No.1421875 Report

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>>1421828

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 19:36:45 No.1421881 Report

Quoted By: >>1421946

>>1421853
>if its not falling down its ok

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 19:49:13 No.1421883 Report

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Because no one asked them to, you fucking retard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 19:57:00 No.1421887 Report

Quoted By: >>1421889

I would think taggers would be very glad to throw up paint on all that shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 20:08:46 No.1421889 Report

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>>1421887
fuck graffiti, just give a coat of >>1421789 and be done

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 20:31:47 No.1421900 Report

Quoted By: >>1421938

>>1421863
Let cities build and run commuter rail on it. Keeping it in use and available for later freight service. Just mind the loading gauge when making passenger platorms

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 23:00:38 No.1421938 Report

Quoted By: >>1421939 >>1422625

>>1421900
How would you do that without forcibly seizing it from the rail company?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 23:05:48 No.1421939 Report

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>>1421938
The rail company keeps the land and rights to run trains.

The city rail service maintains the row, rails, etc. So they can build stations and run passenger trains on it.

The city doesn't have to acquire row and the RR has someone else keeping some of their stuff maintained.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 23:23:18 No.1421946 Report

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>>1421881
It is though. And as soon as they get painted some you-know-what is going to come along and graffiti it anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 00:27:55 No.1421967 Report

Quoted By:

>>1421780
Paint or no paint, that Deco bridgework is the real shit. It'd look incredible if they actually kept it up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 00:35:44 No.1421973 Report

Quoted By:

>>1421780
I'd guess it's because rail isn't subsidized like roads are

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 00:36:58 No.1421975 Report

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>>1421835
I doubt things would get fixed unless it poses a safety risk like messed up stairs. Someone gets hurt and if it's messed up stairs, they're going to lose a crap ton of money in court.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 00:38:28 No.1421977 Report

Quoted By: >>1421980

>>1421848
they're converting all the abandoned rails around me into MUPs

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 00:42:01 No.1421978 Report

Quoted By: >>1427851

>>1421828
This. Paint just flakes off after a few years and then doesn't protect from corrosion. It's best to leave them unpainted and let the patina protect the metal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 00:45:48 No.1421980 Report

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>>1421977
That's fucked up

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 00:51:06 No.1421981 Report

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>>1421851
that looks like some shit walt disney would build.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 00:56:15 No.1421987 Report

Quoted By: >>1421990 >>1422152

RUST IS BOSS

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 01:12:17 No.1421990 Report

Quoted By: >>1422047

>>1421987
don't you think it's about time you grow up and powdercoat that frame anon
you've had your fun

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 04:20:33 No.1422047 Report

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>>1421990
It's a boat anchor with stamped dropouts, no DT bosses and a stripped hanger, I'm not sinking any money into it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 06:45:39 No.1422081 Report

Quoted By:

>>1421781
fpbp

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 15:11:13 No.1422152 Report

Quoted By:

>>1421987
rip rust

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 21:51:10 No.1422242 Report

Quoted By: >>1422503

>>1421785
>11'-8"
How come we're not getting videos of THIS bridge?
>>1421802
So?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Nov 2019 12:59:20 No.1422407 Report

Quoted By: >>1422465

>>1421846
And thanks to illegal mexicans, nobody can be held accountable!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Nov 2019 17:57:49 No.1422465 Report

Quoted By:

>>1422407
thanks mexico!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Nov 2019 20:55:10 No.1422503 Report

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>>1422242
>So?
Nothing. Enjoy your German scat porn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Nov 2019 01:54:15 No.1422625 Report

Quoted By: >>1422634 >>1422641

>>1421938
You imply that it somehow bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Nov 2019 02:31:42 No.1422634 Report

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>>1422625
You don't need to.

The rr allows the city to run a passenger service. In exchange the city maintains everything. The rr still has rights to freight service on the tracks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Nov 2019 03:05:44 No.1422641 Report

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>>1422625
Freight rail does a far greater service than commuter. Seizing old lines that service local industries would destroy local business, and place all industry in the hands of a select few mega-monopolies and outsourced chinese labor.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 25 Nov 2019 06:36:42 No.1423677 Report

Quoted By: >>1423762 >>1426494

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Nov 2019 06:52:34 No.1423683 Report

Quoted By:

>>1421780
>>1421785
>>1421807
>>1421809
>>1421839
>>1421848
Chicago reminds feels like a fusion between the urban aspects of NYC mixed with the archetectual aestetic of a Midwestern railtown. Like, there are buildings (especially close to the railroad) that remind me of buildings in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, but others that make me feel like I'm in the middle of the Bronx or Manhattan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Nov 2019 15:31:02 No.1423762 Report

Quoted By: >>1425090

>>1423677
nice

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 26 Nov 2019 21:52:33 No.1424218 Report

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fuck chicago

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Nov 2019 05:08:27 No.1425090 Report

Quoted By: >>1425515

>>1423762
I love the colour of compressed sodium light gives

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Nov 2019 07:39:15 No.1425105 Report

Quoted By: >>1425517

please change these 100 year old robber baron federal railroad rules

if you don't maintain it then all rights revert to the local government

railroads use some local track to store toxic chemicals, and if they cause environmental damage, the company hides behide all sorts of rules

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2019 15:21:37 No.1425515 Report

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>>1425090
thats a nice underpass. I wish ours looked like that

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2019 15:25:16 No.1425516 Report

Quoted By: >>1425579

>>1421780

Because it costs money. Caltrain, a major commuter rail operator with some of the highest revenue margins in the whole US, only swapped their 20s-era steel bridges for concrete ones because they needed to physically move the tracks over for four-tracking and increase the speed cap to 125. They still use older steel bridges nearby because those tracks don't have to be moved yet.

Railroads are not charities or altruists. They're businesses; profit comes first. Freight doesn't move faster than 40 mph and doesn't complain about graffiti why should they? It's only something people who aren't their customers care about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2019 15:28:00 No.1425517 Report

Quoted By: >>1426827

>>1425105

That's basically what has happened, especially on the west coast in CA where old ROWs are now seen as usable for state-led projects. Most notable is Caltrain itself, which SP wanted to abandon like they did the nearby SPC (now partially shared with VTA) and NCR (now SMART) routes. LA's abandoned streetcar ROWs are now being rebuilt, and now Caltrans want to rebuild the SN route to move freight off the Capitol Corridor line. And then there's the whole Dumbarton bridge, which was sold to Samtrans for a few cents and promptly demolished for scrap despite it being the only rail bridge across the SF Bay at the time.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2019 16:30:41 No.1425537 Report

Quoted By: >>1425540 >>1426844

but it's aesthetic.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2019 16:38:25 No.1425540 Report

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>>1425537
These aren't actually in cities, the things you guys posted look like they're some soviet era bull shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2019 20:02:28 No.1425579 Report

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>>1425516
>It's only something people who aren't their customers care about.
Rusty leaking concrete chipped rail bridges bring down the value and aesthetic of any city tenfold. You see these bridges all over town, it's not like they are on private property behind a fence. They are on the edges of downtown loops, and cross over neighborhoods in plain sight.
Imagine if skyscraper owners let their facades rust and get graffited and could be seen for miles in all directions. You dont think anyone would care about that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2019 18:18:55 No.1425884 Report

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>>1421848
There's a project in the city I'm at now called rails to roads or some shit like that. They're converting them into pathways. So far, the stupid ass bikers continue to ride down the middle of the road on a busy street and wonder why they get run over. Nice idea though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Dec 2019 09:37:41 No.1426494 Report

Quoted By:

>>1423677
wheres this? looks comfy

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 12:49:12 No.1426827 Report

Quoted By:

>>1425517

Dumbarton demolished? You might wanna get outside every once and a while.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 14:16:31 No.1426844 Report

Quoted By:

>>1425537
rusthetic

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2019 17:52:22 No.1427851 Report

Quoted By:

>>1421978
This only looks good because it's a truss. Rust looks like crap when it's on a span like the one in OP's image.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Dec 2019 14:37:16 No.1428538 Report

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>>1421780
just give it a fresh coat of paint

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 09 Dec 2019 20:59:12 No.1428636 Report

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>>1421780
The bridge will belong to the Railway Infrastructure however the Local Authority should be responsible for the Masonry Facias on the Structure. What Third World Country is this?

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