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Facts
- Overview
- Vertical lift bridge over Cerritos Channel on CA 47 in Long Beach
- Location
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1946
- Design
- Vertical lift
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 272.0 ft.
Total length: 3,976.2 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.76649, -118.23965 (decimal degrees)
33°45'59" N, 118°14'23" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/385205/3736955 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Long Beach (digital)
- Inventory numbers
- CA 53-2618 (California bridge number)
BH 10955 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 01/2008)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 27.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1998)
- 20,300
Update Log
- May 9, 2010: New Street View added by Ed Hollowell
- April 23, 2010: Updated by Craig Philpott: corrected location
Sources
- David Kimbrough - kimbrough-photo [at] charter [dot] net
- Extreme Trains - History Channel - This bridge is featrued promanently in an episode of this show - "Freight Train"
- Craig Philpott - cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu
- Ed Hollowell - erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com
Comments
I have added a new entry for the Henry Ford next to this one.
If this bridge was listed historic, and was up for replacement and there was a federal agency involved in any way, Sections 106 and 4(f) are triggered, and then yes, the bridge would have been offered for anyone who could relocate it. In addition, funds up to the cost of demolition would be available for preservation. Any taker would have to sign a preservation covenant saying they would preserve the relocated bridge.
Sometimes, a bridge owner might make a similar offer on their own as well, regardless of federal involvement or historic status. I have no idea if that happened here.
I had heard, and I'm posting it here, the the Henry Ford Bridge was available to about anyone who would pay to have it dismantled. Anyone else know about this?
There are actually two bridges across the Cerritos Channel. Both connect Terminal Island with Wilmington, a district of Los Angeles. On the west is the Henry Ford Bridge which is railroad bridge and immediately to the west is the Commodore Schuyler F. Helms drawbridge for truck and cars. These are critical links between the Los Angeles - Long Beach harbor, one the busiest in the world, the busiest on the Pacific Coast of the Americas, and the rest of North America.
To see more photographs of these and other bridges of Los Angeles County, go to:
Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.