The OCTA OC Bridges Orangethorpe and Tustin/Rose bridge construction is done! It’s been pretty much finished for several months now, and during construction I was taking pictures of the progress. I tried to take pictures any time there was a noticeable change, but I forget to take pictures for months at a time. I was […]

A lot has happened since my last update on the OCTA OC Bridges construction project at Tustin/Rose. In my last post, the section over the train tracks hadn’t been put into place yet. I was wondering how they were going to add that section, and in October I found out! They brought in a big […]

There has been a lot of work being done on the OCTA OC Bridges construction project at Tustin/Rose since my last update. Back in June the framework for the bridge had gone up and more has been added. The section around the train tracks have still yet to be added, but the rest has been […]

About two months since my last update on the OCTA OC Bridges construction project, a lot of framework has been going up. The columns shown in a previous update are all in place now. And they have all been filled with concrete. The construction crews have also been building a wooden framework with girders laid […]

The OCTA OC Bridges construction project on the north side of Orangethorpe at Tustin/Rose initially progressed more slowly than what was happening to the south. There was a lot of work going on at both sites simultaneously, but it seemed like more was being done on the south side. Once the walls were built south […]

With expected completion sometime in the middle of 2016, the OC Bridges construction project (led by the OCTA) at Orangethorpe and Tustin/Rose is in full swing. Being right next to the construction, I see a fairly good amount of what is being done. After building the bypass road and closing Tustin/Rose for a block both […]

Usually when I hear a train passing by outside, it’s a train comprised of newer BNSF locomotives pulling double-stacked shipping containers. Usually at least once a day there will also be a train of tank cars. But occasionally I see something different that gets me excited and fumbling to take a picture. Last month this […]

I live across the street from BNSF tracks so I have a pretty good view out my window to watch the trains go by. One of the first pictures I found that I took of a train across the street was on a rainy day. There is actually construction that recently started to put a […]