Saturday, May 11, 2024

BNSF/Santa Fe Hell Canyon Bridge near Drake, AZ

(Archived Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)
 
Photo taken by Alexander D. Mitchell IV in May 2008 via BridgeHunter

Dave Blaze Rail Photography posted
Santa Fe...All The Way!
Today's repost features a southbound (timetable west) BNSF stack train heading for Phoenix crossing the famed Hell Canyon Bridge led by a pair of GEs dressed in the sharp H2 scheme
This is about MP 21.6 on modern day BNSF's Phoenix Sub (measured from Ash Fork).  The 646 long single track bridge over dry Limestone Canyon was built by Santa Fe predecessor Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway in 1901 and still proudly proclaims the name of BNSF's predecessor to the few travelers that pass by on dusty lonely parallel County Road 71. 
Unincorporated Drake 
Yavapai County, Arizona 
Friday May 18, 2012 
Tim Shanahan shared


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