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The Vance Creek Bridge is an arch bridge in the Satsop Hills of Mason County, Washington that was built for a logging railroad owned by the Simpson Logging Company in 1929. At 347 feet (106 m) in height, it is the second-highest railroad arch in the United States after the nearby High Steel Bridge. [2]
A picture taken in the 1940s of the Vance Creek Bridge with a Simpson train. A Simpson EMD SW1200 in 2011. The Simpson Lumber Company conducted logging operations and was based in Shelton, Washington. Four mills were sold to Interfor and the Shelton property was sold to Sierra Pacific Industries. [1] [2]
Goldsborough Creek Bridge: 1923 1982-07-16 Shelton Mason: Grand Coulee Bridge: 1934, 1935 ... Vance Creek Bridge: 1929 1982-07-16 Shelton Mason: Steel arch ...
[20] [21] The Vance Creek Bridge, 347 feet (106 m) [22] above Vance Creek (), was the highest railroad bridge in the United States and remains among the twenty highest bridges in the country [ 23 ] Wildlife
The parallel Simmons Road, a Grays Harbor County road, is getting a 110-foot-long bridge. The Simmons Road and westbound bridges are already in use. The bridges are being built while Camp Creek ...
Location of Mason County in Washington. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Mason County, Washington, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
Built in 1929, the bridge originally carried a rail line whose construction made logging operations possible in new areas of the Olympic Peninsula.. Along with the Vance Creek Bridge, it was one of two similar bridges built for the rail line by the Simpson Logging Company, which contracted its construction to the American Bridge Company.
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