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PNWR - Blind Slough Bridge

Clatsop County, Oregon

Photos 

Photo taken by Aaron Hockley

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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BH Photo #279962

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Warren through truss bridge over Blind Slough on Portland and Western Railroad
Location
Clatsop County, Oregon
Status
Closed
History
Built 1895
Railroads
- Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W)
- Great Northern Railway (GN)
- Northern Pacific Railroad (NP)
- Portland & Western Railroad (PNWR)
- Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SPS)
Design
Warren through truss
Also called
SPS - Blind Slough Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+46.20256, -123.56159   (decimal degrees)
46°12'09" N, 123°33'42" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/456673/5116706 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Knappa
Inventory number
BH 59210 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,567)
Built 1895 (278)
Built during 1890s (2,984)
Center Pivot Swing Span (82)
Clatsop County, Oregon (37)
Closed (2,665)
Deck girder (5,745)
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (76)
Girder (10,234)
Great Northern Railway (360)
Laced endposts (159)
Movable (2,970)
Navigable waterway (2,152)
 Northern Pacific Railroad (387)
Oregon (1,176)
Owned by railroad (12,423)
Pin-connected (3,901)
Plate girder (7,923)
Portland & Western Railroad (28)
Railroad (15,414)
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (75)
Swing (1,453)
Through truss (15,062)
Truss (32,784)
Warren through truss (1,615)
Warren truss (6,564)

Update Log 

  • November 5, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
  • March 12, 2015: New photos from Mike Garland
  • March 20, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • March 17, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected stream name & added photographs
  • January 12, 2014: Added by Luke Harden

Sources 

  • Luke
  • Douglas Butler
  • Mike Garland - Rapier342 [at] comcast [dot] net
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PNWR - Blind Slough Bridge
Posted April 21, 2015, by K. A. Erickson

Marvig wondered if this bridge has seen recent use judging by the rust content on the rails. Although the tracks stretch to an end with abandoned rail car on the west side of Astoria before Young's Bay they have indeed not been used. Use would involve moving freight cars over alder saplings growing in the rail bed on both sides of the John Day Bridge. http://bridgehunter.com/or/clatsop/pnwr-john-day-river/ They are larger on the west side than east.

I'd surmise the tracks are not used past the pulp mill at Wauna. Speaking of the images Garland took at Clatskanie had the bridge in the open for rail position. This was true on April 14, 2015 when passing by. Passenger thus no stopping. On April 16, passing by again, the bridge had returned to the state Mike Goff captured, on the side off the river. http://bridgehunter.com/or/columbia/bh43460/

PNWR - Blind Slough Bridge
Posted March 12, 2015, by John Marvig (marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Rusty rails would say it hasn't seen a train in years