The Santa Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge in Highland Park, Los Angeles , is more than 710 feet (220 m) long and crosses the Arroyo Seco Parkway at an elevation of over 56 feet (17 m). It is the tallest and longest railroad span in the city of Los Angeles, and most likely the oldest such structure still in use. The bridge crosses the lower part of the Arroyo Seco , a watershed canyon from the San Gabriel Mountains .
6-588: The Santa Fe Arroyo Seco bridge, built in 1896, replaced the 1889 wooden trestle used by the Southern California Railway , which was a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad . The 1889 bridge, designed by Santa Fe's chief structural engineer Fred T. Perris , replaced the original 1885 wooden trestle bridge built by the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad . Mainline rail service ended in 1994. In
12-546: A building or structure in Los Angeles is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a bridge in California is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Southern California Railway Southern California Railway was formed on November 7, 1889. It was formed by consolidation of California Southern Railroad Company, the California Central Railway Company, and
18-644: The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company on January 17, 1906. San Bernardino and Eastern Railway was chartered on August 11, 1890 to build a rail line from City of San Bernardino, California via Highland, California to connect with line of Southern California Railway Company at or near its terminus in San Bernardino County, connecting at Mentone, California with rail tracks built to that point in 1887 under charter of San Bernardino Valley Railway Company. Santa Fe And Santa Monica Railway Company
24-753: The Redondo Beach Railway Company. A second consolidation and reforming on the Southern California Railway was on June 27, 1892 this was done by consolidation of former Southern California Railway Company (above) with Santa Fe And Santa Monica Railway and the San Bernardino & Eastern Railway. On May 1, 1899 the Southern California Railway as took control of the Elsinore, Pomona And Los Angeles Railway. All of lines of Southern California Railway Company line (list above) were deeded to
30-690: The late 1990s, the bridge was retrofitted to accommodate Gold Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, which opened on July 26, 2003. The A Line now runs on the bridge's tracks following the Regional Connector 's opening in June 2023. Advocated by the Highland Park Heritage Trust and Charles J. Fisher , the bridge was declared City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 339 on January 22, 1988. This article about
36-525: Was chartered to build from a point at or near " Mesmer Station " on line of Southern California Railway Company between Inglewood, California and Port Ballona (what is now Playa del Rey, Los Angeles ), to Santa Monica, California . This franchise and its track were sold on March 21, 1902, to Los Angeles Pacific Railroad Company, including the rail line from Inglewood to near Mesmer Station built under charter of Los Angeles and Santa Monica Railroad Company. Elsinore, Pomona And Los Angeles Railway Company
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