San Diego and Arizona Railway/Gallery
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(PD) Photo: Unknown
Frank Forward, Sr. (mayor of San Diego) turns the first shovelful of dirt to ceremonially commence construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway on September 7, 1907. At left is Frank Kimball, a prominent local landowner and rancher,[1] and to the right is real estate developer Alonzo Horton.(PD) Photo: Unknown
The upper Campo Creek Viaduct, "...surely the most photographed bridge [on the SD&A]..." is nearly 600 feet (183 meters) long.[2] The steel structure was completed on October 5, 1919.
Notes and references
- ↑ Kimball also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, and helped organize the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's subsidiary line the California Southern Railroad.
- ↑ Hanft, pp. 200-201