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Blue Nose Bridge
Description
Driving along CA SR96 (Klamath River Highway) there is an abutment that readily appears out of place on the far side of the river. Co-ords: N 41.56783 W 123.53101. Pulling over to investigate reveals its counterpart abutment on the nearside / roadside of the river at co-ords: N 41.56847 W 123.53025. The gap between these two abutments is ~310 feet.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Klamath River
- Location
- Siskiyou County, California
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge ~.3 mile upstream
- History
- Built 1924; Replaced 1966; Not fully removed until 1973
- Builder
- - Willits & Burr Co. of San Francisco, California
- Design
- Pennsylvania through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 310.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.56811, -123.53054 (decimal degrees)
41°34'05" N, 123°31'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/455766/4601962 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Dillon Mountain
- Inventory number
- BH 72483 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 30, 2019: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- June 12, 2016: Added by Patrick S. O'Donnell
Sources
- Patrick S. O'Donnell - 1 [dot] 991km [at] comcast [dot] net
- Engineer's News Volume 3 No.2 February 1973 - Info.pdf
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/siskiyou/bh72483/
This page on newspapers.com has a picture that a contributor who has an account will add later.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/21321069/
In the meantime, I'm going to merge the build date.