Bridge update

Time for a construction update.

This is the second weekend of work closing down King Street and working overnight.

The first weekend, they cut out a section of track 3 (closest to our house) and added some supports below it before putting it back.

This weekend, it’s track 2 (currently in the middle — the eventual outcome will be 4, rather than 3 tracks). I didn’t look closely enough last time to see but they are doing similar work over both King and Commonwealth this time.

Clearly, they have a lot of faith in the switches north and south of us to keep trains off the interrupted tracks.

I invested another $2 to get up on the metro platform for a better view, and happened to be there as they moved another steel section into place to bang it into the ground.

They use what I call a jiggler on the three sided pieces and then get out the pile driver for the round posts.

Sarah and I wish the pile drive beat was a bit faster sometimes — it’s too slow for I’ve been working on the railroad.

I’m sure I’ll get tired of checking what they are up to and guessing what will come next. But I’m not there yet. (I wouldn’t mind quieter construction, of course.)

And they seemed to mismark the detour yesterday; we had a lot of traffic going the wrong way down Sunset but no accidents we’re aware of.