Union Street Railroad Bridge (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Union Street Railroad Bridge is a vertical lift, Pratt through truss bridge that spans the Willamette River in Salem, Oregon, United States, built in 1912-13. It was last used by trains in the early 1990s and was sold for one dollar to the City of Salem in 2003, which converted it to bicycle and pedestrian use.The bridge was engineered by Waddell & Harrington Engineers, and the lift span uses their patented lift bridge design. The bridge was built for the Salem, Falls City and Western Railway (SFC&W), which was incorporated in 1901 as a logging railroad by Louis Gerlinger and Charles K. Spaulding. After the initial construction of a line between Dallas and Falls City in 1903, the line reached the formerly separate city of West Salem in 1909; passenger service across the Willamette to Salem was provided by ferry. Southern Pacific (SP) gained full control of the Salem, Falls City and Western in 1912, and built what was then known as the Salem, Falls City & Western Railway Bridge to connect the line to the Valley Main Line in 1913.