Rating:
5 votes
SC&MB - Soquel Creek Bridge
Description
Pin connected Pratt deck truss with curved bottom chord. The entire crossing consists of two timber trestle sections and two small girder sections crossing city streets plus the main truss section crossing the water feature.Facts
- Overview
- Pratt Deck truss bridge over Soquel Creek on The Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railroad
- Location
- Capitola, Santa Cruz County, California
- Status
- Open Railroad only
- Railroads
- - Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway (SC&MB)
- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Pin connected Pratt Deck truss with curved bottom chord
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 140.0 ft.
Total length: 585.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.5 ft.
- Also called
- SC&MB - Capitola Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.97321, -121.95347 (decimal degrees)
36°58'24" N, 121°57'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/593149/4092411 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Soquel
- Elevation
- 45 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 46748 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 21, 2014: Updated by Luke: Added category "Relocated" based on info from linked PDF
- April 10, 2014: Updated by Alex Lewis: Revised Railroad Name--line operated by Iowa Pacific subsidiary SC&MB.
- September 20, 2012: New photos from Jann Mayer
- January 22, 2011: Updated by Anthony Dillon: added new category for this unique span
- January 22, 2011: Updated by Craig Philpott: added description and photos
- November 6, 2010: New Street View added by Craig Philpott
- October 31, 2010: Added by Craig Philpott
Sources
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Jann Mayer - jannmayer [at] gmail [dot] com
- Alex Lewis
- Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line Alignment & Bridge Evaluation and Repair/Rehabhilitation/Repair Recommendation Report.pdf
Comments
Soquel Creek Railroad Bridge
Craig, This would appear to be another example of a Fishbelly Deck Truss. There was a discussion on the forum some time back about this unique style of bridge, and there is a category with just a few examples shown:
http://bridgehunter.com/category/tag/fishbelly-deck-truss/
I added this bridge to the category.
Soquel Creek Railroad Bridge
This Pratt Deck truss railroad bridge has a curved bottom chord and I am interested in learning more about this feature from our resident historical engineers.
Soquel Creek Railroad Bridge
Here is a link to a picture of this bridge.
© Copyright 2002-18, James Baughn and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/santa-cruz/bh46748/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/santa-cruz/bh46748/
Wow, thanks for pointing out this rare bridge! I have a brief discussion on the type here: http://www.historicbridges.org/truss/millcr/. Only a handful of these bridges have been found so far. Hopefully the historic bridge community will find more as time goes by.