Santa Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge
The bridge with a Gold Line train.
Location162 S. Avenue 61
Coordinates34°06′39″N 118°11′04″W / 34.110958°N 118.184373°W / 34.110958; -118.184373
Built1896
Designated1988[1]
Reference no.339[1]

The Santa Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge in Highland Park, Los Angeles, is more than 710 feet (220 m) long and crosses the Arroyo Seco Parkway at an elevation of over 56 feet (17 m).[2] It is the tallest and longest railroad span in the city of Los Angeles, and most likely the oldest such structure still in use.[3] The bridge crosses the lower part of the Arroyo Seco, a watershed canyon from the San Gabriel Mountains.

History

The Santa Fe Arroyo Seco bridge, built in 1896, replaced the 1889 wooden trestle used by the Southern California Railway, which was a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad. The 1889 bridge, designed by Santa Fe's chief structural engineer Fred T. Perris, replaced the original 1885 wooden trestle bridge built by the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. Mainline rail service ended in 1994. In the late 1990s, the bridge was retrofitted to accommodate Gold Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, which opened on July 26, 2003.[4]

Advocated by the Highland Park Heritage Trust and Charles J. Fisher, the bridge was declared City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 339 on January 22, 1988.[1]

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See also

References

  1. ^ a b c http://cityplanning.lacity.org/complan/HCM/dsp_hcm_result.cfm?community=Northeast Los Angeles
  2. ^ Best Method of Erecting Plate Girder Bridges: Discussion. In: Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Railway, Bridge and Building Association. Vol. 5–7, 1895, P. 55–61.
  3. ^ Railroads in United States - Things to Do In Los Angeles, LAokay.com. Archived January 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Charles J. Fisher, historian and preservationist

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