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C&TS - Chama River Bridge
Documents
 | Denver & Rio Gran de Railroad San Juan Extension National Historic Landmark Nomination FormPDF (23.0 MB) Provided by the National Park Service; Posted by Luke
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Description
The bridge is a contributing resource to the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad San Juan Extension National Historic Landmark."The two-span steel through truss bridge, which crosses the Rio Chama, is the sole example of this kind of bridge on the Cumbres & Toltec. A Pratt design, the spans were built by the New Jersey Iron & Steel Company. According to Wilson and Glover, the trusses were installed across the Rio Chama in 1924, but were used near Delta, Colorado prior to that date."
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Chama River on Railroad
- Location
- Chama, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built here 1924
- Builder
- - New Jersey Steel & Iron Co. of Trenton, New Jersey
- Railroads
- - Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS)
- Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 230.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.90886, -106.57514 (decimal degrees)
36°54'32" N, 106°34'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/359678/4085920 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chama
- Inventory number
- BH 55540 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/nm/rio-arriba/bh55540/
Seems to me that this bridge likely wasn’t originally built 1924. It looks like a late 1880s or early 1890s span to me. Without knowing much about the railroad, it appears to be possible that it was relocated to this site.