San Antonio River Bridge
Photos
Nacimiento Ferguson Road Bridge
Photo taken by krkccountry in 2018
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
View this photo at krkccountry.blogspot.com
BH Photo #484600
Description
Central supports have been added at the mid-span of the trusses, thus transforming this bridge into a girder design.Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over San Antonio River on Nacimiento Road
- Location
- Monterey County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Relocated here ca. 1940; rehabilitated 2008
- Design
- (2)6-panel, pin-connected Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 255.9 ft.
Deck width: 16.7 ft.
- Also called
- Nacimiento-Ferguson Road Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.98453, -121.23913 (decimal degrees)
35°59'04" N, 121°14'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/658741/3983666 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Jolon
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 50
- Inventory number
- BH 78048 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of March 2017)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 87 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- June 16, 2022: Updated by Nathan Holth: Removed construction date, added comment of likely relocation.
- June 16, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added category "Decorative/Non-Functional Truss"
- October 21, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- August 1, 2017: Added by Craig Philpott
Sources
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- Nathan Holth
Comments
Paul,
Absolutely, any short-medium span pin connected truss dated after 1920 is suspect, although Independent Bridge Company of Pittsburgh and Vincennes Bridge Company of Vincennes, Indiana did build pin-connected trusses into the 1920s (for reasons which elude me).
I removed the date and added mention of likely relocation.
I doubt these pin-connected trusses are as new as 1940...Historic Aerials topographical maps don't show a crossing here prior to 1940, however, so I would bet the spans were relocated here.
Also, the 2008 NBI gives this span a build date of 1994...likely when the mid-span piers were added.
http://californiacaterhamclub.com/chat/showthread.php?1979-N... has a photo that I'm uploading that I believe is this bridge. It's on photobucket, so I don't trust it to stay visible there, hence the upload.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/monterey/san-antonio-river/
I agree. According to HA topographical maps, Nacimiento-Fergusson Road used to cross the San Antonio River about a mile to the southeast....maybe that was where the trusses were originally.