One of the line's best photo vantage points, this $1,200,000 bridge spans 918 feet, some 296 feet above the Chulitna River.  This engineering feat was the most expensive and difficult bridge project on the railroad.  The American Bridge Company started construction in early 1921, erected steel in June and finished in August.  To construct the bridge, they strung an aerial tram across the gulch and construction proceeded from both sides.  The first passenger train crossed Hurricane Gulch Bridge on August 15, 1921.

Click here for a photo of the original Hurricane section house.

Hurricane section house approximately three miles south of the gulch.	Section workers live nearby and provide their own housing.	Construction camp at Hurricane in the summer of 1968. I was an inspector for the State of Alaska. We worked on the building of a section of the Parks Highway from the Alaska Railroad crossing to Little Coal Creek. The railroad stop at Hurricane is in the background. Mt. McKinley is at center left, in the clouds. -- John Pierog

 

Tourists walking across the Hurricane Gulch Bridge, 1930s

 See also:

• Hurricane Gulch by drone
• Hurricane Turn at Hurricane Gulch
• Aurora on Hurricane Gulch Bridge (1975)
• Hurricane crew
• Hurricane Turn (2012)
• The many faces of Hurricane Gulch
• Fall colors at Hurricane Gulch Bridge
• ARR 1500, 2402 & 1503 lead the Aurora southbound over Hurricane
• Taking a break on Hurricane Gulch bridge
• Hurricane Turn at Hurricane Gulch
• Hurricane Gulch in the fall