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UP - Redding Trestle
Photos
Near South End of the Structure
Photo taken by Michael Goff on February 15, 2008
BH Photo #133283
Facts
- Overview
- Warren deck truss bridge over Sacramento River on Union Pacific Railroad in Redding
- Location
- Redding, Shasta County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1939
- Railroads
- - Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- The main spans of the Redding Trestle consist of 3 continuous Warren deck truss spans over the Sacramento River. The remainder of the bridge is made up of steel plate girders on truss towers. At its maximum the bridge stands 110.0 feet above the river.
- Dimensions
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Total length: 4,348.8 ft. (0.8 mi.)
- Also called
- Sacramento River Railroad Viaduct
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.59306, -122.40028 (decimal degrees)
40°35'35" N, 122°24'01" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/550746/4493756 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Redding
- Inventory number
- BH 39852 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 25, 2014: New Street View added by Luke
- May 18, 2010: New photo from Kevin Pope
- February 11, 2009: Added by Michael Goff
Related Bridges
- Lake Redding Bridge (Upstream)
- Sundial Bridge (Downstream) - One modern bridge between structures
Sources
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
- New Bridge over Sacramento River - University of California, Davis. General Library
- Kevin Pope
- Luke
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I grew up with this bridge. My brother Pat (now deceased) and friend Tom even tried to climb the trestle from the ground next to the river to the top. When we finally did reach the top a train was approaching from the Redding direction. We were too far from the end of the bridge to make it to safety, so we climbed over the side and hanged on until the 100 car freight train passed us by. We then climbed back down and never tried that again. From the Redding park on the north side of the river we watched many artists paint pictures of the bridge and or the old automobile bridge across the Sacramento river which were both beautiful sites that remain embedded in my brain nearly seventy years later.