Photos
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Three Quarter View Of South Corner. View To North HAER photos taken January 1993 by Mark Nash Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Three Quarter View Of Northeast Corner. View To West Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Northeast Portal Detail. View To Southwest Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Traffic Deck At Upper Chord. View To Southwest Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Bottom Chord Connection Detail. View To Southeast Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Floor Stringers, Connections. View To Southwest Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Upper Connection Detail. View To Southwest Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Far View Of Northeast Portal. View To Southwest Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Vertical Members And Traffic Deck. View To West Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Bottom Chord. View To West Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Portal Connections Detail. View To North Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Truss Seatings. View To North Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Vertical Member Connection. View To North Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Far View Of Southwest Portal. View To Northeast Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Southwest Portal Detail. View To Northeast Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Far View Of South Corner. View To North Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Far View From Upstream. View To Northwest Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Far View From Downstream, View To Southeast Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Far View Of Middle Truss Connection. View To North Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Three Quarter View Of Northeast Corner. View To West Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Detail Truss Connection. View To Southeast Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost two-span through truss bridge over the Gunnison River on CR 650
- Location
- Delta County, Colorado
- Status
- Replaced by modern bridge
- History
- Originally built 1890 at Delta by the Bullen Bridge Co. Relocated 1908 to cross the Gunnison at Read. Damaged by flooding and relocated ca. 1938 to Escalante Canyon. Replaced 1993.
- Builder
- - Bullen Bridge Co.
- Design
- One pin-connected, 12-panel Camelback Pratt through truss, 196.0 feet long
One pin-connected, 11-panel Camelback Pratt through truss, 180.0 feet long
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 196.0 ft.
Total length: 383.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.5 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.75739, -108.25928 (decimal degrees)
38°45'27" N, 108°15'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 12/738152/4293421 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Dominguez
- Inventory numbers
- CO DEL650R-2.8-35 (Colorado off-system bridge number)
NRHP 85000196 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 11822 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- HAER CO-72 - Saxton Bridge
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com