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El Dorado Trail/P&SVRR - Weber Creek Bridge
Photos
El Dorado County, California Bridges: Southern Pacific Viaduct across Weber Creek (1)
Photo taken by Mark Yashinsky
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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BH Photo #347762
Description
NOTE: The part between Forni and Missouri Flat Roads of the historic P&SVRR line was made into a trail but the rest was not.Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Weber Creek and Lockie Road on El Dorado Trail
- Location
- Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, California
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1903, converted to El Dorado Trail unknown year.
- Railroads
- - Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad (P&SV)
- Rail-to-trail
- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Design
- Wooden-decked, rail-to-trail deck plate girder bridge with truss piers.
- Also called
- P&SV - Weber Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.70819, -120.81365 (decimal degrees)
38°42'29" N, 120°48'49" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/690104/4286663 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Placerville
- Inventory number
- BH 68170 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 30, 2016: Photos imported by Dave King
- November 28, 2015: Updated by Luke: Corrected build date
- June 24, 2015: Added by Erik Hoffman
Sources
- Erik Hoffman - norcalroadswebsite [at] gmail [dot] com
- Luke
- El Dorado County, California - Imagery + Info
- Trainweb - Foothill Rails - SP Placerville Branch - Imagery
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/el-dorado/bh68170/
I was replying to a note Erik had left in the description field saying that the rail-to-trail category was incorrect because it was a railroad bridge, or something along those lines.
I also silently added the railroad's category so I wouldn't steal his thunder.