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Union Pacific Railroad's Benicia–Martinez drawbridge is between the two vehicle bridges. The railroad bridge was built between 1928 and 1930 for Southern Pacific Railroad to replace its train ferry between Benicia and Port Costa, California. It is the second-longest railway bridge in North America, and the longest railway bridge west of the ...
1930 Bridge connecting Benicia-Martinez was completed, eliminating railroad's need for railroad ferry "Solano" and "Contra Costa" between Benicia and Port Costa, California. Jul 1930 Sacramento Northern connects SN mainline at Creed with Vacaville Branch that was built in 1914 by Northern Electric by constructing a 9-mile branch.
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On May 31, 1928, the Southern Pacific (successor to the Central Pacific in operations of the ferries) authorized construction of a railroad drawbridge from the east side of Benicia to Martinez, which is east of Port Costa. The railroad bridge opened on October 15, 1930 and the two railroad ferries were decommissioned. [9]
The steel bridge built in 1958 collapsed onto Interstate 25 Oct 15, when a broken rail caused 30 cars from a BNSF Railway train hauling coal to derail, the National Transportation Safety Board ...
On November 10, 1930, the SP opened the Benicia-Martinez Railroad Drawbridge east of Martinez, replacing the train ferry and adding Martinez to the Oakland–Sacramento mainline. [8]: 74 [4] Passenger service on the San Ramon Branch ended in 1931. [5] The second story on the east end of the station was removed in 1942.
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North Carolina’s ports could receive some of the shipping traffic that is unable to reach the Port of Baltimore due to Tuesday’s collapse of a vital bridge over a key shipping lane, experts said.