AKRR Warren Pony Truss bridge over Noyes Slough -- Fairbanks AK USA
N 64° 51.285 W 147° 43.031
6W E 465997 N 7192459
Warren Pony Truss bridge over Noyes Slough on the Alaska RR in Fairbanks AK
Waymark Code: WM16WDQ
Location: Alaska, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2022
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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.
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"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: (
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"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: (
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