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Apr 27, 2022 21:04:10   #
Moondoggie Loc: Southern California
 
Great engineering.

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Apr 27, 2022 21:32:05   #
KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia
 
RichKenn wrote:
I took this picture in 2014 of a bridge on the old Highway 101 west of Santa Barbara. There is a parallel railroad bridge from which I took this picture.


Beautiful capture. Good to see the train didn’t run over you

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Apr 27, 2022 22:34:21   #
Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas
 
cambriaman wrote:
RichKenn is correct. That is the classic California Division of Highways (now CalTrans) bridge structure. I cross the current US101 bridge (not shown) every time I drive (several times a year) from the Central Coast to Orange County and return. I worked as an Engineering Aide at The Division of Highways every summer while I was attending Engineering (EE) school at USC in the late 1950's. The bridge guys were on the 6th floor, I was on the 5th floor of the Tishman Building on Wilshire Blvd (3440). in LA in those days. Great experience. But highway electrical engineering was too tame for me, I hired into Hughes Aircraft at graduation and designed CRT displays for the USN and later NATO, fun job!
RichKenn is correct. That is the classic Californi... (show quote)


Rich is correct, but Hwy1 merges with Hwy101 in Oxnard and they run together past Solvang and on Google maps it looks like the bridge is not in use anymore. Both 1 and 101 by pass the bridge and I think it is the original Hwy1.

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Apr 29, 2022 16:25:09   #
RichKenn Loc: Merritt Island, FL
 
Thanks for these insights. I appreciate learning more about the bridge.

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Apr 29, 2022 16:34:45   #
Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas
 
RichKenn wrote:
Thanks for these insights. I appreciate learning more about the bridge.


Thanks, Rich, but wrote Google maps and it should have been Google Earth, on there you can see it in its full glory.

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