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| August 2013 (38.68091 Degrees, -121.19427 Degrees) Orangevale Avenue Bridge |
A few more photos of the Orangevale Bridge (24C0268). This bridge is 161 ft long with a 100 ft arch span and it's only 18 ft wide between the curbs. I guess that explains why the Lincoln Highway was eventually re-routed onto State Route 50. Still, the bridge carries a surprising 1000 vehicles a day!
On the map above we can see the Lincoln Highway originally jogged into Folsom and only later crossed the American River before finally settling on State Route 50 south of the river. It was in 1927 (when the highway crossed the American River) that the Orangevale Bridge briefly carried the Lincoln Highway.
Still, it is hard to understand how an 18 ft wide bridge could ever have carried two lanes of traffic. The
Bridgehunter writes that the Lincoln Highway Association and the Heritage League of Folsom are planning to convert Orangevale Avenue to one-way traffic to try to preserve the bridge.
1 comment:
It's not hard to imagine that width was wide back then. Horse and wagons were still used here. Think of two Ford Model A cars back then as big cars.
No Madison Avenue existed.
So the only way to cross over to the Rainbow to Orangevale or the Fair Oaks bridge to Fair Oaks and Carmichael. To enter Sacramento only Hwy 40/80 Auburn Blvd. And Hwy 50 Folsom Blvd existed. Orangevale Avenue was the lead in to Greenback Lane and to Auburn Blvd. The first Military convoy to cross the country coast to coast was on the route that would become the Lincoln Hwy.
This was led by Dwight D. Eisenhower. And the horrible conditions were to lead the way for the interstate road building boom after. I remember in the 50s when Folsom was a place to go by on the way to White Rock Rd and Latrobe. To get to Shingle Springs and Eldorado on the way to Placerville
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