AKRR Warren Pony Truss bridge over Noyes Slough -- Fairbanks AK USA - Truss Bridges on Waymarking.com

This handsome Pony Truss bridge can be seen from afar from the Johansen Expressway, or up close behind an apartment complex located at Illinois Rd and College Street near Noyes Slough.

From Bridgehunter.com: (visit link)

"Alaska Railroad Noyes Slough Bridge
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska

Facts
Overview
Warren pony truss bridge over Noyes Slough on Alaska Railroad

Location
Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska

Status
Open to traffic

Design
Warren pony truss"

Note: This bridge is slated to be replaced at some point in the near future as part of the 2022 Alaska Railroad Bridge Program. See: (visit link)

"REPLACEMENT PROGRAM

• MP 467.8 (Noyes Slough flood area near the Fairbanks Rail
Yard) — replace a seven-span 98-foot timber deck bridge
with a bridge determined to be best-suited via the environmental process.

• MP 467.9 (Noyes Slough at the west end of the Fairbanks
Rail Yard) — replace a 336-foot bridge comprised of one
thru-truss, one I-beam and 13 timber trestles with a bridge
deemed best-suited via the environmental process."

Blasterz estimate that this Warren pony truss bridge was built between 1920 and 15 July 1923, the year AKRR was completed from Seward to Fairbanks (and President McKinley drove the golden spike into the Tanana River truss bridge that finished the railroad). Source: (visit link)

Parking Coordinates:: N 64° 51.291 W 147° 42.985 Date Built: 01/01/1920 Length of Span: 336 feet www: https://bridgehunter.com/ak/fairbanks-north-star/bh98530/

Visit Instructions:
Log your find with a picture of the bridge with yourself or your GPS in the foreground. This shot does not have to be taken "on" the bridge. The shot should show the "truss" structure of the bridge as well.

Recent Visits/Logs:

Date Logged Log User Rating   10/20/2022 Benchmark Blasterz visited it