re: Neyland Stadium Turns 93 today

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Is this during construction that was stopped for the season, or did they really build the upper deck like that then add on years later?



I never saw an answer to your question, but, based upon the photo below, I'm going to assume that they stopped where they did because going any further would have required removal of the railroad track that appears in the photo, below (which, I assume, eventually happened).

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Usually they've designed phases that can be completed before the season starts. Our stadium was master planned to hold a 100k by Gen. Neyland who was also one helluva engineer with the Army Corps so we had intentional phases like this that could be added to later. We didn't run out of Neyland-based master plans until the 2000s.

As for the railroad track - I'd never noticed it in that pic but railroad tracks are located all over campus (and Knoxville). On campus they're far enough back that these days you never notice them.

Interestingly enough, trains do NOT run on game day - if you're brave you can join the crowd that uses railroad bridge to get to the stadium and back. I wouldn't recommend it tho - that's some scary stuff with alcohol involved.