Rating:
No votes cast

SERA - Tule Canal Bridge

Yolo County, California

Photos 

Photo taken by Mark Yashinsky

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

View this photo at bphod.com

BH Photo #324156

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over Tule Canal on Sierra Northern Railway
Location
Yolo County, California
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1911; Deck plate girder added in the 1930s.
Railroads
- Interurban
- Northern Electric Railway (NER)
- Sacramento Northern Railway (SN)
- Sierra Northern Railway (SERA)
- Sierra Railroad (1936-2003) (SRYC)
- Yolo Shortline Railroad (YSLR)
Design
Deck plate girder
Dimensions
Total length: 8,000.0 ft. (1.5 mi.)
Also called
SN - Tule Canal Bridge
YSLR - Tule Canal Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.67748, -121.64329   (decimal degrees)
38°40'39" N, 121°38'36" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/618013/4281860 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Grays Bend
Inventory number
BH 67453 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (15,712)
Built 1911 (786)
Built during 1910s (9,633)
California (2,593)
Deck girder (5,742)
Girder (10,231)
Interurban (911)
Northern Electric Railway (8)
Open (39,880)
Over a mile long (301)
Owned by railroad (12,415)
 Plate girder (7,920)
Railroad (15,411)
Sacramento Northern Railway (35)
Sierra Northern Railway (6)
Sierra Railroad (1936-2003) (5)
Timber Trestle (67)
Timber stringer (4,015)
Total length over 2500 feet (916)
Yolo County, California (49)
Yolo Shortline Railroad (4)

Sources 

  • Luke

Comments 

Post a comment here