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NWP - Wingo Lift Bridge
Description
This Scherzer rolling lift bridge was built across Sonoma Creek near the San Pablo Bay. (The slough is only a couple feet deep and dwindles rapidly upstreeam of the bridge, so I'm not sure why they bothered with a lift bridge.) This brigde is manually raised by pulling a chain. Nautical charts still list it as openable and hand chalked dates on the counterweight suggest it was opened as recently at 2007.Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over Slough feeding San Pablo Bay on Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP)
- Location
- Sonoma County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1920 by the Toledo Bridge & Crane Co
- Builder
- - Toledo Bridge & Crane Co. of Toledo, Ohio
- Railroad
- - Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP)
- Design
- Scherzer rolling lift bridge with a plate girder span. Due to its small size, it is raised and lowered manually by pulling a chain. The deck is planked so that it can be used by cars as well as trains.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 62.0 ft.
Total length: 270.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.20971, -122.42794 (decimal degrees)
38°12'35" N, 122°25'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/550082/4229238 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sears Point
- Elevation
- 5 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 55124 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 23, 2013: New photos from Craig Philpott
- April 17, 2013: Updated by Craig Philpott: added photos, updated description
- January 4, 2013: Updated by Jann Mayer: Added categories "Northwestern Pacific Railroad", "One-lane traffic", "Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co."
Sources
- YouTube - Amtrak crossing Wingo drawbridge
- Jann Mayer - jannmayer [at] gmail [dot] com
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Wikipedia - Wingo ghost town
- 360 panorama - 360 degree panorama photo from bridge
- 2013 NASCAR special excursion train
- Douglas Butler
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@ Jann, it turns out that Millerick Rd is open and legal, past the Larsen family winery and down to a locked gate in the vineyards with a small parking lot. It is then a mile plus hike across to the bridge. I met one local at the time of my visit who had driven in from the West on the private entrance road. Yes, I have know of this bridge for several years and figured i would never find a way to approach the location. One of my current favorite unusual locations.