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Mare Island Bridge (1935)

Solano County, California

Photos 

Old Mare Island Bridge

Old Strauss bascule bridge replaced California Drawbridges (Bernard C. Winn)

Photo taken by Douglas Butler in April 2013

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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BH Photo #284453

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Deck plate girder bridge over Mare Island Strait on Mare Island Shipyard RD w RR
Location
Vallejo, Solano County, California
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1935; replaced 1980
Builders
- Barrett Hilp
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
Railroads
- Interurban
- Sacramento Northern Railway (SN)
- San Francisco & Napa Valley Railroad (SF&NV)
- San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway (SFN&C)
- US Military Transportation Corps (DODX; USAX; USNX; DAFX)
Design
Bascule
Dimensions
Total length: 94.0 ft.
Also called
Mare Island Shipyard Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.11133, -122.27408   (decimal degrees)
38°06'41" N, 122°16'27" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/563637/4218415 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Mare Island
Inventory number
BH 61107 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Barrett Hilp (1)
Bascule (1,080)
Built 1935 (1,468)
Built during 1930s (11,928)
California (2,662)
Deck girder (6,037)
Girder (10,728)
Interurban (956)
Lost (26,413)
Lost 1980 (103)
Lost during 1980s (1,449)
Movable (3,063)
Navigable waterway (2,182)
Owned by federal government (1,261)
 Owned by military (93)
Plate girder (8,349)
Rail-and-Road (392)
Railroad (16,101)
Replaced by new bridge (17,897)
Sacramento Northern Railway (34)
San Francisco & Napa Valley Railroad (2)
San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway (2)
Solano County, California (48)
Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. (178)
Strauss Overhead Counterweight Bascule (57)
Total length 75-100 feet (6,672)
US Military Transportation Corps (17)
Vallejo, California (8)

Update Log 

  • September 25, 2018: Updated by Luke: Corrected dates per image
  • September 25, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • February 1, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • May 30, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

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Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
  • Luke

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