. Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles . nta Fe on the Iiglit and trestle approachacross .Salt Lake yard on the left. The character of the river bed is also well shown,although there was an unusually large amount of water in the river. The heavy rip-rapalong the banks is necessary to prevent erosion in times of Hood. Fourth Street Bridge At Fourth Street there are two composite structures each about long, one carrying the street and tlie other the Los Angeles Railway Present and Over Los Ri
. Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles . nta Fe on the Iiglit and trestle approachacross .Salt Lake yard on the left. The character of the river bed is also well shown,although there was an unusually large amount of water in the river. The heavy rip-rapalong the banks is necessary to prevent erosion in times of Hood. Fourth Street Bridge At Fourth Street there are two composite structures each about long, one carrying the street and tlie other the Los Angeles Railway Present and Over Los Riv- er ISl across the freight yard of the Santa Fe, the river and the freight yard of theSalt Lake. For the vehicle bridge, commencing at the west end. there are100 feet of filled approach, then approximately 300 feet of frame bents anda wooden floor, then five combination through Howe truss spans of lengthsfrom 100 to 114 feet, then three deck combination Howe spans carrying thestructure across the river and then wood floor and frame bents and endingwith a filled approach al)out \?i? feet FIG. ,.2. I^OS AXGBLBS RAILWAY BRIDGE: ACROSS THE LOS RIVER FOIRTH STREET There are two bridges shown. The ruarer is the railway bridge; the other the highwaybridge. The five through spans at the left cross the Santa Fe main line and freight yard;the deck spans at the right cross the Los Angeles River. The approach at right crossesthe Salt Lake main line and freight yards. Both approaches are timber trestles. The Los Angeles Railway Bridge is practically the same as the vehiclebridge except that tracks are carried across the Santa Fe yard on five steelthrough truss spans. The vehicle bridge was built about 1903 and that ofthe Los Angeles Railway about 1898. The wooden portion of the struc-ture has been renewed since, a large portion of this renewal having beendone in 1913. The vehicle bridge has a roadway 19 feet 6 inches wide anda 5-foot sidewalk supported on brackets. The Lo
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