Sacramento County, California Bridges: Southern Pacific Railroad across the Cosumnes River (1)

September 2013 (38.357684 Degrees, -121.343534 Degrees) Cosumnes River Railroad Bridge

We've repeatedly crossed the Cosumnes River as we've studied bridges in El Dorado, Amador, and Sacramento Counties. The Cosumnes is a major river system, but it comes to an abrupt end in Western Sacramento County. We are going to study the last few bridges across the Cosumnes before it joins the Mokelumne and then empties into the San Joaquin River, which flows into the California Delta and into San Francisco Bay.

Today's bridge carries the Southern Pacific and Amtrak Railroads on concrete box girder approach structures and on a steel girder river bridge on big concrete caissons across the dry (in September) Cosumnes River. We are rapidly approaching the western edge of North America, which becomes a complex network of rivers as we approach the Bay. We'll take another look at this bridge tomorrow.

Sacramento County, California Bridges: Southern Pacific Railroad across the Cosumnes River (1) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.