As the sun draws below the horizon line in the South Sacramento Delta, the shape of a Southern Pacific Drawbridge looms before the sunset. Dedicated to Amtrakman4014, SP8535alt, and Reid8. History of this drawbridge. Outside of Isleton California, along the old Southern Pacific Walnut Grove Branch stood the Georgiana Slough Drawbridge. It was built in 1929 to cross the Georgiana Slough, a narrow body of water in the Southern Sacramento Delta. In 1972, a flood struct the Isleton area and the line was cut back to Hood California in 1975. The entire branch line was abandoned in 1978, and the Georgiana Slough Drawbridge was demolished between 1980 and 1983. Today, you would never know that a bridge was once there but some remains of the Isleton to Walnut Grove section of the branch line existing today. Today, the California State Railroad Museum own the potion of the orphaned Walnut Grove branch between Hood and Old Town in Sacramento, and the name for this branch is now, the Sacramento Southern.
Credit to the Southern Pacific and Scratch. Music: Gioachino Rossini, William Tell Overture, Third Movement, Ranz de Vaches.
