Bridge Over the River Google

I am cross-posting this from my LiveJournal, because the general internet brain trust isn't working for me, and the empeg brain trust is often quite helpful:

Hereoes episode 17, "Company Man", aired Monday Feb 26, 2007. Several scenes prominently feature a bridge. A single arch concrete span with two lanes.

When viewing the episode, I was certain it was the Foresthill bridge near Auburn, CA, which was used at the beginning of the Vin Diesel movie "XXX". It seems my personal memory of the Foresthill bridge was wrong, because the Foresthill bridge is actually all steel with split lanes.

A bunch of obsessive and unhealthy googling followed.

I see that the bridge looks architecturally the most like the Bixby Creek Bridge on CA highway 1. However, the countryside doesn't exactly match what's seen in the episode (although it's close).

If you freezeframe the episode in highdef, you can read a roadsign near the bridge which reads "Odessa 40 Midland 55 Big Spring 225". I assumed they faked the sign because they wanted you to think the bridge was really in Texas. Also, if you look at a map of Odessa, you see that Big Spring is quite close to Odessa, and there's no way it could be that far off on any highway sign.

No resolution yet. Anyone got an idea of which bridge was used in the episode? This is a completely odd and unhealthy obsession that I've got going here, and I need closure.

I'm seeing what I can do, Tony. I just wanted to reply and mention that it was a great episode. Normally, in this show, I'm not at all engrossed in these characters on a personal level, but that episode was an exception.

No answer but more pics

http://heroeswiki.com/The_bridge

Definitely not bixby creek. The railing is wrong, the arch isn't tall enough, and it doesn't have the larger support towers on either side. After growing up in the area, I can't help but notice every time it turns up in a car commercial, which tends to happen every other year or so.

Support towers

railing

It's closer to the Rocky Creek Bridge, but that's still not it...

Matthew

Thanks for joining in my obession, guys.

I'm tempted to add a deliberately incorrect entry about its real location to the Wiki just to spur others to make a correction and thus find out which bridge it really was.

Tony, I believe this is your bridge. I believe it's called the Big Tujunga Narrows Bridge, and it apparently spans part of the "Big Tujunga Canyon" on the Angeles Forest Highway.

The only problem I have is that the Google Maps shot doesn't seem to match the images I was able to find here and here. The images seem to show the road curving much more sharply at either end of the bridge.

But that's all I was able to find.

Yup, great find!

...Original

Tujunga



from http://www.scvresources.com/general/big_tujunga_canyon_road.htm

Dignan, you nailed it. You are amazing. Someone go add it to the Heroes Wiki (I've got too much work to do today).

How'd you find it?

Here's the one that you linked to on the google map.


http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&a...p;scene=6689983

but I was wondering if this isn't it.


http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&a...p;scene=6704044

The road curves the right way and you can see where they would have setup the crane shot.

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Dignan, you nailed it. You are amazing. Someone go add it to the Heroes Wiki (I've got too much work to do today).

How'd you find it?

I really can't claim credit. I figured that if anyone knew, it would be the TV geeks at the Television Without Pity forums. I posted your question in there, and one person replied saying that in the commentary track (you can find commentaries on the NBC website), the creators mentioned that the bridge was in the Big Tujunga Canyon. But that's where their contribution ended. Then I spent a little bit of time searching to find the bridge's name and scanning the roads in that area on Google Earth (and Maps)