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Gallery The Key Route, also known as Key System C — Piedmont via 40th St. Key118_40_Bway

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It was considered a test of courage to climb up under the trestle and sit on the cross-beams while the C train ran thru or a truck drove over it. Lots of the boys from Piedmont Ave school & St. Leo's school did this at one time or another in the early ...

It was considered a test of courage to climb up under the trestle and sit on the cross-beams while the C train ran thru or a truck drove over it. Lots of the boys from Piedmont Ave school & St. Leo's school did this at one time or another in the early '50s. Unthinkable in today's letigious society. Love the Studebaker parked at the bottom of the hill.

Posted by H. Hughes (guest) on Mon 09 Mar 2009 02:23:30 AM GMT

Actually, that was a city of Oakland idea to expedite traffic between Broadway and Howe. Key dug it out; Oakland filled it in.

Posted by Gallery Administrator on Tue 12 Apr 2005 04:21:10 AM GMT

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I always wondered how the line ran through this cut. There looks like a little overpass on top of the cut which of course is no longer there. The questions is why they even bothered filling in the cut. Maybe the nature of the east bay soil the way it...

I always wondered how the line ran through this cut. There looks like a little overpass on top of the cut which of course is no longer there. The questions is why they even bothered filling in the cut. Maybe the nature of the east bay soil the way it tends to ooze in slow motion.

Posted by Guest on Tue 12 Apr 2005 03:35:03 AM GMT

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Key118_40_Bway

40th & Broadway, Oakland

Date: 04/11/2005
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It was considered a test of courage to climb up under the trestle and sit on the cross-beams while the C train ran thru or a truck drove over it. Lots of the boys from Piedmont Ave school & St. Leo's school did this at one time or another in the early ...

It was considered a test of courage to climb up under the trestle and sit on the cross-beams while the C train ran thru or a truck drove over it. Lots of the boys from Piedmont Ave school & St. Leo's school did this at one time or another in the early '50s. Unthinkable in today's letigious society. Love the Studebaker parked at the bottom of the hill.

Posted by H. Hughes (guest) on Mon 09 Mar 2009 02:23:30 AM GMT

Actually, that was a city of Oakland idea to expedite traffic between Broadway and Howe. Key dug it out; Oakland filled it in.

Posted by Gallery Administrator on Tue 12 Apr 2005 04:21:10 AM GMT

Sam

show full show summary

I always wondered how the line ran through this cut. There looks like a little overpass on top of the cut which of course is no longer there. The questions is why they even bothered filling in the cut. Maybe the nature of the east bay soil the way it...

I always wondered how the line ran through this cut. There looks like a little overpass on top of the cut which of course is no longer there. The questions is why they even bothered filling in the cut. Maybe the nature of the east bay soil the way it tends to ooze in slow motion.

Posted by Guest on Tue 12 Apr 2005 03:35:03 AM GMT

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