Trainshed on the Oakland Mole
#2
Posted 29 October 2018 - 08:27 PM
Wow, Dave. Looks spectacular. Wish I was alive when it was still around.
#3
Posted 29 October 2018 - 09:39 PM
All the people who commuted between the East Bay and Sf passed thru this trainshed between 1900 and 1939 (when the Bay Bridge was built). I read somewhere that by adding in the transcontinental passenger trains and for a while this was the busiest passenger terminal in the US. I dunno if that's really true... but I betcha is was waaaay cool anyway.
#4
Posted 29 October 2018 - 09:47 PM
It certainly would have been cool, though back then, nobody would have thought much of it.
#5
Posted 29 October 2018 - 10:28 PM
You're preserving history for all of us and giving a chance to relive how it was in the day. Great work Dave!
#6
Posted 29 October 2018 - 10:41 PM
Dave you have got the water just right it is a perfect match for the Bay.
I hope you still have the ferry boats i made for you i will make more when you get ready to populate the Bay waterfront. they filled the Bay for decades with their distinctive white superstructures and black stacks and hulls, the standard livery for all of the ferry lines in the San Fran Bay and other Estuaries and Bays of the area.
that train shed is superb. really super to see in place. your patient work is paying off. .....it takes a long time to populate a route to the point when it comes alive and you are there
Chris
I hope you still have the ferry boats i made for you i will make more when you get ready to populate the Bay waterfront. they filled the Bay for decades with their distinctive white superstructures and black stacks and hulls, the standard livery for all of the ferry lines in the San Fran Bay and other Estuaries and Bays of the area.
that train shed is superb. really super to see in place. your patient work is paying off. .....it takes a long time to populate a route to the point when it comes alive and you are there
Chris
#7
Posted 30 October 2018 - 06:04 AM
Many Kudos to you and, I don't know who else, Craig? It is satisfying to see history being preserved in virtual format. I believe it has an important place in the telling of our past.
#8
Posted 30 October 2018 - 07:06 AM
Superb work, Dave. I admire the time and patience ( and research!!) it takes to create a route like this. Excellent.
Regards, Gerry
Regards, Gerry
#9
Posted 30 October 2018 - 09:12 AM
timmuir, on 30 October 2018 - 06:04 AM, said:
Many Kudos to you and, I don't know who else, Craig? It is satisfying to see history being preserved in virtual format. I believe it has an important place in the telling of our past.
The Mole is ALL Dave's masterpiece. In fact the entire route is a masterpiece.
#10
Posted 30 October 2018 - 09:52 AM
You guys are too kind. I suspect anyone can do about the same if they've put in the same amount of time... I started working on this rte in 2003.