The Haystack Landing Bridge is a railroad bridge owned by
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) at
Haystack Landing
Haystack Landing is a historic property in Sonoma County, California, now owned by Dutra Materials. Haystack Landing was a passenger and freight connection on San Francisco Bay via the Petaluma River and San Pablo Bay. The landing is currently the ...
in
Petaluma, California. The original Haystack Landing bridge, which was built in 1903 and installed in 1904, was a
Warren truss swing bridge built by the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
It was operated by buttons on the approach trestles, and had a electric motor, as well as fabric belts and bevel gears. The turntable upon which it rotated had a diameter of .
When planning out their commuter rail system, SMART estimated that it would cost approximately 20 million dollars for the bridge to be used for passenger service, so they opted for the cheaper option of buying a used drawbridge. They decided upon the old
Galveston Causeway railroad bridge, that was planned to be scrapped.
SMART budgeted around 16 million dollars for the new bridge and purchased the bridge for 4.2 million dollars. Officials say the bridge should be good for around 75 to 80 years of passenger rail service.
The new bridge has a host of new electrical systems, such as programmable logic control and flux vector variable frequency drives. The bridge also has integrated operating systems.
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References
External links
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Historic American Engineering Record in California
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit
Railway bridges in the United States
Transportation buildings and structures in Sonoma County, California