(11-07-2016 12:34 PM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(11-07-2016 07:34 AM)JTiger Wrote:  

(11-06-2016 02:54 PM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(11-06-2016 01:56 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  Dogs should not be allowed on it. Period.

When there are a good number of people on the bridge, bike riders seem to be a big risk IMO.

Same thing on the greenline. I refuse to ride the greenline on a bike unless I'm with my kids riding. To many dog leashes that have almost taken me out.

Fall over the green line, you might get hurt but no hundred foot drop.

True but a broken bone or a concussion is no fun.

(11-05-2016 12:56 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(11-01-2016 08:23 AM)JTiger Wrote:  

(10-31-2016 01:12 PM)tmoneyinmphs Wrote:  I have been off my bike for the last two months but started back up yesterday with a nearly 30 mile ride on wolf river trails. I love riding my bike downtown so i will try to go to the hahahan bridge before this week ends.

Any of you ever rode that sidewalk on the side of memphis-arkansas (old) bridge? It's so so so sketchy.

I rode the WRT Sunday as well. Very dusty. It was tough going with all the runners out there between walnut grove and g'town

I rode it not long before the grand opening. The new trail route seems kind of boring to me but I knew they had to do something to make it sustainable

Mr. Big Shot.

(11-08-2016 12:16 PM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(11-05-2016 12:56 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(11-01-2016 08:23 AM)JTiger Wrote:  

(10-31-2016 01:12 PM)tmoneyinmphs Wrote:  I have been off my bike for the last two months but started back up yesterday with a nearly 30 mile ride on wolf river trails. I love riding my bike downtown so i will try to go to the hahahan bridge before this week ends.

Any of you ever rode that sidewalk on the side of memphis-arkansas (old) bridge? It's so so so sketchy.

I rode the WRT Sunday as well. Very dusty. It was tough going with all the runners out there between walnut grove and g'town

I rode it not long before the grand opening. The new trail route seems kind of boring to me but I knew they had to do something to make it sustainable

Mr. Big Shot.

heh. not really, they had re-routed it some time ago - I think most just didn't know it was open or didnt want to deal with the parking situation.

It was an awesome red, white, and blue tonight.

(10-31-2016 10:04 AM)TiggerFan Wrote:  A double-stack train came to a stop while I was walking. I couldn't stop thinking one loaded flatcar could have 85,000 pounds of freight on it and the bridge is 100 years old.

True the bridge is a century old but it is quite well built. If you walk west on the RR tracks to the east support pier there is a trap door to go below the tracks to inspect the bridge support. It has never had a problem with the foundation. Testament to how well built it was from the start.

As for the 85,000 pounds of freight per flat, the limit per is 45,000 lbs. The Harahan bridge survived the second big flood in the early 1900s and the river was so high that the water almost covered the tracks. That was in 1927 when the bridge was just about 10 years old. People were getting around downtown on Main St via john boats and flat rafts. The river in some places south of Memphis reached 50 to 60 miles wide.

So I don't think a few people and some bicycles will make it collapse.

(11-15-2016 02:53 PM)SayWhat? Wrote:  

(10-31-2016 10:04 AM)TiggerFan Wrote:  A double-stack train came to a stop while I was walking. I couldn't stop thinking one loaded flatcar could have 85,000 pounds of freight on it and the bridge is 100 years old.

True the bridge is a century old but it is quite well built. If you walk west on the RR tracks to the east support pier there is a trap door to go below the tracks to inspect the bridge support. It has never had a problem with the foundation. Testament to how well built it was from the start.

As for the 85,000 pounds of freight per flat, the limit per is 45,000 lbs. The Harahan bridge survived the second big flood in the early 1900s and the river was so high that the water almost covered the tracks. That was in 1927 when the bridge was just about 10 years old. People were getting around downtown on Main St via john boats and flat rafts. The river in some places south of Memphis reached 50 to 60 miles wide.

So I don't think a few people and some bicycles will make it collapse.

it was an intermodal double stacktrain so it had two containers per flatcar both loading up to 42,500 #s. I've been in the rail business for 25 years.