San Joaquin County, California Bridges: South Bacon Island Road Bridge across the Middle River

April 2014 (38.00478 Degrees, -121.53175 Degrees) South Bacon Island Road Bridge

A little South of Eight Mile Road is the South Bacon Island Road Bridge across the Middle River. For some reason, this attractive bridge doesn't have a county or a state bridge number. However, we know this bridge was built in 1905 by Clark and Henery of Stockton California because there is a shiny plaque on the sloping chord at the end of the bridge.

The South Bacon Island Road Bridge is a two span structure with a 204 ft long Pratt truss swing span, a shorter truss approach span, and it has a timber 18 ft wide deck. There's a bridge tender's house overhanging the deck but no motorized gates, at least on the north side of the bridge. Shallow floor beams support the timber deck and I don't even see a vertical clearance restriction of a weight restriction on this bridge. The Historic Bridge Website states: This privately owned bridge is a rare example of a highway truss swing bridge with pin connections.

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