Big Tujunga Canyon Road is approximately 13-mile-long rural highway located mostly in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County. As presently configured Big Tujunga Canyon Road begins at Angeles Forest Highway (County Route N3) and extends west to Oro Vista Avenue in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sunland. The earliest parts of Big Tujunga Canyon Road were constructed between Mount Gleason Road northeast to Hoyt Ranch at Vasquez Creek in the 1890s. The highway was extended east to Big Tujunga Dam in 1931. In 1958 Big Tujunga Canyon Road would be extended east again from dam to a terminus at Angeles Forest Highway. In 1959 the corridor of Big Tujunga Canyon was added to the definition of planned Legislative Route Number 266. Said planned state highway was developed as a trans-San Gabriel Mountain corridor which would have connected with US Route 466. During 1964 the Big Tujunga Canyon corridor would be transferred to Segment B ...
In 1995 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway installed the modern Rosecrans Avenue Overpass. The current 300 feet long Polygonal Warren Through truss is the third railroad overpass structure to have been built at the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue and Aviation Boulevard. The modern structure was proceeded by a 164.1-foot-long span built in 1964 which was a replacement for the original 1924-era overpass. An overview of the Rosecrans Avenue Overpass The intersection of Rosecrans Avenue and Aviation Boulevard (originally Redondo Road) lies at the boundaries of three cities. The city of Hawthorne occupies the lands east of the intersection, El Segundo occupies the northwest corner and whereas Manhattan Beach is located at the southeast corner. Since 1924 the intersection Rosecrans Avenue and Redondo Road would be the location of a railroad overpass structure. The original overpass was a 100-foot-long pony truss/plate girder design built by t...