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ARZC - Colorado River Bridge
Description
The American Bridge Company provided the steel superstructure and the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. constructed the substructure and erected the superstructure.Facts
- Overview
- Pennsylvania Through truss bridge over Colorado River on Arizona and California Railroad (ARZC)
- Location
- Bluewater, San Bernardino County, California, and La Paz County, Arizona
- Status
- Open to rail traffic only
- History
- Built 1908
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas
- Railroads
- - Arizona & California Railroad (ARZC)
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Design
- Pennsylvania through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 284.0 ft.
Total length: 1,400.0 ft.
Deck width: 19.0 ft.
- Also called
- Parker Railroad Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.16021, -114.29890 (decimal degrees)
34°09'37" N, 114°17'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/749005/3783216 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Parker
- Elevation
- 368 ft. above sea level
- Inventory numbers
- CA 54-999 (California bridge number)
BH 11308 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 24, 2020: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- November 23, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- September 14, 2016: New photo from Dave King
- July 30, 2016: Updated by Luke: Image + builder
- October 1, 2014: New photos from Royce and Bobette Haley
- January 16, 2011: Updated by Craig Philpott: Corrected location, added photos
- April 10, 2010: Updated by Craig Philpott: corrected the design and owner and status as RR bridge not highway bridge
Sources
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Luke
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
ARZC - Colorado River Bridge
Jason,
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ARZC - Colorado River Bridge
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ARZC - Colorado River Bridge
News article about fire. https://www.parkerpioneer.net/news/article_3281c0de-d7f3-11e...
ARZC - Colorado River Bridge
Bridge damaged by fire.
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