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The bridge was named for a large sugar pine that grew to the north of the eastern bridge abutment. [5] The Tenaya Creek Bridge (1928) spans Tenaya Creek with a single 56.75-foot (17.30 m) arch at a 25-degree skew on the Happy Isles-Mirror Lake Road. The bridge carries the standard roadway, bridle path and sidewalk. Cost was $37,749.16.
Sugar Pine Bridge [a] Extant Reinforced concrete closed-spandrel arch: 1928 1991 Service road Merced River: ... Bridge No. 324.99 Extant Pratt truss: 1901 1997
State Hwy 108 at Sugar Pine cutoff 38°03′40″N 120°11′58″W / 38.061133°N 120.199517°W / 38.061133; -120.199517 ( Sonora-Mono Sugar Pine
A Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Co. log train climbing a steep grade near Sugar Pine, California, circa 1915. Due to the onset of the Great Depression and a lack of trees, the operation closed in 1931. But the graded right-of-way through the forest remained, enabling the Stauffer family to reconstruct a portion of the line in 1961.
The park is in the high Sierra Nevada mountain range at an elevation of around 1,900 metres (6,200 ft). It is covered in mixed coniferous forest with tree species such as Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi), white fir (Abies concolor), Sierra lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana), California incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana), and red fir (Abies magnifica). [4]
It was later sold to the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad in May 2006. It is currently in service on the YMSPRR as their #402. Diesel engine #4 is a 55-ton center-cab diesel built by General Electric in August 1955 and was originally Algoma Steel #4, from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
The Matlacha bridge to Pine Island as it’s being repaired on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Hurricane Ian significantly damaged the roadway leading to the bridge, preventing thousands of residents from ...
The Yosemite Lumber Company was an early 20th century Sugar Pine and White Pine logging operation in the Sierra Nevada. [1] The company built the steepest logging incline ever, a 3,100 feet (940 m) route that tied the high-country timber tracts in Yosemite National Park to the low-lying Yosemite Valley Railroad running alongside the Merced River.