Calaveras County, California Bridges; Calaveritas Road Bridge across Calaveritas Creek

June 2013 (38.15583 Degrees, -120.61000 Degrees) Calaveritas Road Bridge

Just south of yesterday's timber trestle bridge is a 100 ft long camelback pony truss bridge that was built in 1928. The Calaveritas Road Bridge (30C0024) is 85 years old but it's not designated as a historic place for some reason.

I made a spreadsheet (by the year built) of all bridges still being used in California but bridges from before 1930 are very rare. Most of the bridge were built in the 1960s and 1970s.

This bridge was assembled with rivets and steel plates. For some reason the guard rail was cut on each side of the end posts.

We can clearly see the floor beams supported by the diagonal and vertical members meeting at the bottom chord.

I tried to photo-merge a collection of photos to show the whole bridge but it didn't come out so well.

Calaveras County, California Bridges; Calaveritas Road Bridge across Calaveritas Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.