{"id":2654,"date":"2021-10-10T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2021-10-10T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:20:12","slug":"colorado-river-rail-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/10\/10\/colorado-river-rail-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado River Rail Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re in the vicinity of Topcock, Arizona.  Here the AT&amp;SF line running between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California crosses the Colorado River into California.  There are several interesting things in this photograph.  Since we&#8217;re well into WWII, note the military sentry guarding the bridge.  Also note the gauntlet trackage crossing the span.  A gauntlet (sometimes spelled <em>gantlet<\/em>) is typically used to bring a pair of tracks together, overlapping them in areas that have insufficient clearance, such as a narrow bridge.  Here we have the four rails of the two mainline tracks, and a pair of guardrails in the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This bridge and alignment have since been replaced with an elevated structure supported from below.  Judging from the telltale over the curved tracks leading to the bridge, I would speculate that clearances on this bridge weren&#8217;t sufficient to handle the now-common double stack container traffic.  This new span is also wider, allowing the double track mainline to cross without the use of the gauntlet.  And another interesting note: the Google Maps street view shows the current bridge still displaying the Santa Fe heralds on several spans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photographed by Jack Delano in March, 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Colorado-Rail-Bridge-with-Guard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"865\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Colorado-Rail-Bridge-with-Guard.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado Rail Bridge with Guard\" class=\"wp-image-2653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Colorado-Rail-Bridge-with-Guard.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Colorado-Rail-Bridge-with-Guard-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Colorado-Rail-Bridge-with-Guard-768x799.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Colorado-Rail-Bridge-with-Guard-600x624.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in the vicinity of Topcock, Arizona. Here the AT&amp;SF line running between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California crosses the Colorado River into California. There are several interesting things in this photograph. Since we&#8217;re well into WWII, note the military &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/10\/10\/colorado-river-rail-bridge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}