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LACM - Los Angeles River Bridge
Photos
Goldline over the Los Angeles River - South East
A view of the span over the river from Elysian Park.
Photo taken by David Kimbrough
View this photo at youtube.com
BH Photo #192424
Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Los Angeles River on Gold Line trolly (MTA)
- Location
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- It was recently reconstructed for light rail.
- History
- Salt Lake Rail Road build the original wooden bridge back in the mid-1870's, it has been rebuilt several times since then.
- Railroads
- - Commuter Rail
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACM)
- Metrolink (Southern California) (SCAX)
- Design
- Girder
- Also called
- SCAX - Los Angeles River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.07429, -118.22536 (decimal degrees)
34°04'27" N, 118°13'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/386936/3771070 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Los Angeles
- Inventory number
- BH 47519 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 16, 2011: New photos from David Kimbrough
- January 4, 2011: Added by David Kimbrough
Related Bridges
- ATSF - Los Angeles River Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- David Kimbrough - kimbrough-photo [at] charter [dot] net
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Some awfully cool bridges in this collection.
To the best of my knowledge the Saly Lake RR (UPRR) never crossed the river here, their Right-of-way went up the east bank of the LA River and a branch toward Pasadena that turned north near the old courthouse and jail - there's still rail in the streets nearby. The Santa Fe RR 2nd district crosed here but not on the same alignment as the Gold Line bridge (which is a "sexy" piece of concrete work in my opinion when viewed from the west bank of the river).
As a side note part of the old Santa Fe bridge is now in Soledad Canyon near the campgrounds (see the old movie "Duel" ...) and is used by Metrolink on a line relocation from the former Southern Pacific line (they straightened it out a bit).
Allan Gilbert.