Shasta County, California Bridges: Antlers Railroad Underpass

April 2015 (40.8859 Degrees, -122.3839 Degrees) Antlers Railroad Underpass

The furthest north we got on this trip to Shasta County was to the Boulder Creek Bridge. It's over three hours each way, and so we only had a few hours to find and photograph a handful of bridges. Note how I-5 cuts across a big bend in the river in the Google earth photo below. This makes for some dramatic bridge photos as will be shown in the next few blogs.

Shasta County has some interesting bridges; the longest stress ribbon bridge in the U.S., a Calatrava bridge, and many tall railroad bridges around Lake Shasta. The tall piers and the rugged, mountainous setting enhances the attractiveness of these bridges. However, after photographing several railroad bridges without seeing any trains, I was beginning to wonder if these bridges were still in use. Therefore I was pleased to see a long freight train crossing over I-5 while we were driving past the Antlers Bridges (see photo above) on our way home.

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Yolo County, California Bridges: UC Davis Bridges across Putah Creek (3)

July 2013 (38.5403 Degrees, -121.7422 Degrees) Putah Creek Bridges

There are also a number of road bridges crossing over Putah Creek in the UC Davis Arboretum. As we walked along Putah Creek, we passed under the Cocker Lane Bridge (22I0003) a 3-span concrete continuous T-girder bridge that was built in 1955.

Next is the Mrak Hall Drive Bridge (22I0002), a single span T-girder bridge that was built in 1965.

As we continued our walk, we came to the 'A' Street Bridge (22I0001), a pretty single span open spandrel arch bridge that was built in 1965.

At the end of the Arboretum is the Putah Creek Pedestrian Undercrossing (22 0194), a single box tunnel, built in  2001that goes under some railroad tracks.

Finally, as we continued walking, we got to 1st Street and Richards Blvd and the Davis Underpass (22C0017), a very old steel stringer railroad bridge (1916) with a tunnel for bicycle and pedestrian traffic.

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