Gas trucks.....

[mrvette]

Note on Fox just now....Ethanol truck slammed a bridge abutment in Los Angeles , fried everything in site, killed the driver of course.....maybe weakened the overhead, melted the aluminum guard rails off the thing....

reminds me of a similar thing like that on the DC beltway years ago...shut down a very major artery for almost a week, town was basically on vacation....
gasoline fried the concrete off the bridge, but the beams were not affected, they did have to replace most all the roadway on it though...

ever since then, I get nervous around them things....

I remember a gas station on country roadside in Texas, in '70....the entire sizeable station, about 4 lanes, and a sizeable store....all toast,.....happened about 6 months before I saw it....

mother duck, an entire acre was just black toast....only evidence left was the few concrete islands ......it even got the underground storage tanks, they said....

:crap::gurney::ill:

 

[Douglas Mariani]

The same thing happened in the 80's when a gas truck lost control and hit a bridge abutment on the Long Island Expressway & Sunken Meadow Pky cross over, It cooked the concrete off the bridge and fried the beams. All had to be torn down and replaced.

 

[mrvette]

The same thing happened in the 80's when a gas truck lost control and hit a bridge abutment on the Long Island Expressway & Sunken Meadow Pky cross over, It cooked the concrete off the bridge and fried the beams. All had to be torn down and replaced.

I have driven the L I E it's a mess alright 2 lanes and I remember them nice old stone bridges....they spent some bux on that.....

:crutches: Ford was still making T's when that was built....

:huh2:

 

[SMYDA]

Twice in Birmingham in the last 7 years. Same interchange I-65/I-20.
Known as "Malfunction Junction" to the locals. Tanker overturned under
an overpass. Overpass collapsed due to the blaze.

What was amazing was how fast construction crews removed the old bridge
and had the new one built....working 24/7.

 

[mrvette]

Twice in Birmingham in the last 7 years. Same interchange I-65/I-20.
Known as "Malfunction Junction" to the locals. Tanker overturned under
an overpass. Overpass collapsed due to the blaze.

What was amazing was how fast construction crews removed the old bridge
and had the new one built....working 24/7.

Yeh BUDDY!!.....beat the living crap out of the crews, but Git Er DONE.....

some years ago, on the north side of Wash DC, the local beltway I495 had a 2 lane each way bridge over the gorge of the Potomac river, rocky palisades, so two spans that had been there since late 50's/early 60's funny how I remember driving the DC Beltway when it opened, and no one was on it, even the cops, funny as hell to think of today.....
so Congress directed that bridge be built to something like 4 lanes each way with 5 being turnoff lanes to various parkways....gave the contractor ONE year to get his bonus.....done in like 11 months.....:bounce::bump:

the backups extended about 3-4 miles every morning and evening before that expansion.....

Drill baby drill......


:mime:

 

[greg75vette]

The same thing happened in the 80's when a gas truck lost control and hit a bridge abutment on the Long Island Expressway & Sunken Meadow Pky cross over, It cooked the concrete off the bridge and fried the beams. All had to be torn down and replaced.

, must have been before my time. I never heard of this.

 

[Douglas Mariani]

The same thing happened in the 80's when a gas truck lost control and hit a bridge abutment on the Long Island Expressway & Sunken Meadow Pky cross over, It cooked the concrete off the bridge and fried the beams. All had to be torn down and replaced.

, must have been before my time. I never heard of this.

Sorry it was in 1994.Exit 53(Sunken Meadow Pky ) my home exit was closed longer than they stated in the NY Times. I was born and raised on Long Island and moved from Commack LI to SoCal in 2006.Still have house/family/vettes there.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/08/n...sh-to-reopen-lanes-closed-in-fiery-crash.html

 

[BRUTAL64]

The same thing happened in the 80's when a gas truck lost control and hit a bridge abutment on the Long Island Expressway & Sunken Meadow Pky cross over, It cooked the concrete off the bridge and fried the beams. All had to be torn down and replaced.

, must have been before my time. I never heard of this.

Sorry it was in 1994.Exit 53(Sunken Meadow Pky ) my home exit was closed longer than they stated in the NY Times. I was born and raised on Long Island and moved from Commack LI to SoCal in 2006.Still have house/family/vettes there.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/08/n...sh-to-reopen-lanes-closed-in-fiery-crash.html

You have Vettes everywhere! :bounce:

 

[Cherry]

Is it I hear a whisper of """"JEALOUS""":stirpot::surrender::harhar:

 

[greg75vette]

The same thing happened in the 80's when a gas truck lost control and hit a bridge abutment on the Long Island Expressway & Sunken Meadow Pky cross over, It cooked the concrete off the bridge and fried the beams. All had to be torn down and replaced.

, must have been before my time. I never heard of this.

Sorry it was in 1994.Exit 53(Sunken Meadow Pky ) my home exit was closed longer than they stated in the NY Times. I was born and raised on Long Island and moved from Commack LI to SoCal in 2006.Still have house/family/vettes there.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/08/n...sh-to-reopen-lanes-closed-in-fiery-crash.html

I was in forth grade when that happened. Could explain why I don't remember it. We also didn't go up that often that I know of when I was younger.