This photograph shows Folsom's Rainbow Bridge as it stood in circa 1930. The arch-style bridge was built in 1917/18. An old truss bridge shown in the background was taken down and then erected over the Klamath River at Walker, on a Forest Service...
This April 2, 1936, photograph captures the imposing spires of the Tower Bridge, as seen from the western side of the Sacramento River. The builder of the truss vertical-lift bridge was Sacramento’s George Pollock Construction Company. The...
This April 2, 1936, photograph captures the imposing spires of the Tower Bridge, as seen from the western side of the Sacramento River. The builder of the truss vertical-lift bridge was Sacramento’s George Pollock Construction Company. The...
Photograph, taken circa 1870, of the Central Pacific Railroad Bridge, the first railroad bridge (a wooden truss bridge) over the American River at Sacramento, near the present site of Cal Expo. An early locomotive is shown on the right.
This circa 1980 photograph shows the rail-level portion of the crusty, two-level I Street Bridge. Cross girders impede a southwesterly view of both the Sacramento River and the West Sacramento bank of the river. Built in 1911, the metallic truss...
Shown in circa 1905 is the Southern Pacific Railroad's drawbridge along the Sacramento River. Built as a Howe truss bridge, it was composed of seven spans, the shortest at 150 feet, the longest at 200 feet. The draw, a length of 200 feet, was...
The first local high school built north of the American River was a first in many ways, the result of a need for a school district to educate the far-flung school-age children in the area combined with the practical need for a civic center to bring...
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