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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
- +33.76667, -118.23667 (decimal degrees)
33°46'00" N, 118°14'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/385481/3736971 (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
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"
Comments
Cerritos Channel Bridge (#53+2618) Ford & Helms Bridges
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.
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