Oh yes, the trai-- tracks was right up alongside the canal, it was kind-of all abutment in the s-- n-- net-work, you-see.

I mean the water damage alone, uh it just washed houses away, and um, and ah there was a trailer park just north of Lakeshore Road, big trailer park, well the trailers were being washed down, they 'd come under the bridge, someone would get caught at the, you-know the big centre p-- uh abutment, be caught there for a while and then it finally get loose and go right out the river.

We could smoke but we used to then walk across the trestle of the ah train bridge underneath it where there was this four-inch ledge and it was about ah maybe forty-foot crossing but we were twenty-feet above the rocks. So we would hand-over-hand cross the bridge to the next abutment. I would never let my kids do some of the things that we did as a kid growing up in Beaverton.

And ah- I- I- I drove in and instead of putting on the- on the brake, I put on the- the gas, and I hit the abutment and damaged my brand new car.