Talk:Williamsburg Bridge

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	NYC Portal This article is part of WikiProject New York City, an effort to create, expand, and improve New York City-related articles to Wikipedia feature-quality standard.
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the quality scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as mid-importance on the importance scale.

	Trains Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trains, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to rail transport on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
	See also: WikiProject Trains to do list
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale within the Trains WikiProject.
	This article is maintained by WikiProject New York City Public Transportation. Mid Importance: mid within New York City Public Transportation WikiProject.

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bridges, a WikiProject which aims to expand coverage of bridges on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join us.

Gallery and info box column on right are overlapping. Could someone who knows how please fix this? 65.96.180.86 06:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I inserted a div tag with a style="clear:right" just before the gallery tag. Overlap should be gone now. --Dschwen 07:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Meanwhile (or before) I added template invocation {{clear}} added to try to fix it. There may be a better way but that was a fast fix. That often works as a fast fix, but it sometimes leaves icky gaps in the article on the page. Hope that helps ++Lar: t/c 07:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

(clear does just about the same thing... probably don't need both, someone smarter than me should decide which to keep) ++Lar: t/c 07:41, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Removed my div, kept your {{clear}}. It is more wiki-style (thanks by the way, I didn't know it) and the position was better (gap before the heading not after). --Dschwen 07:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LIRR

The article says the Long Island Railroad used the bridge. However, the Williamsburgh Branch was truncated in 1876 at Bushwick, and only runs from there to Fresh Pond where it joins the Montauk Branch. So, how did LIRR trains run on a bridge that opened in 1902? Jim.henderson 04:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

These were actually Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains that used the BMT Jamaica Line to the Chestnut Street Incline and then the LIRR Atlantic Branch to Jamaica or the Rockaway Beach Branch to the Rockaways. --NE2 15:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)