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UP - Red River Bridge
Description
Crosses the Red River near the VA medical Center and arrives just behind Diamond Jack's CasinoFacts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Red River on Union Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and Bossier Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1907
- Builder
- - Julius Schaub (Consulting Engineer)
- Railroads
- - Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- St. Louis Southwestern Railway (SSW)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Pennsylvania through truss
- Also called
- Spring Street Bridge
Cotton Belt - Red River Bridge
SP - Red River Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.50892, -93.72469 (decimal degrees)
32°30'32" N, 93°43'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/431929/3597079 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Bossier City
- Inventory number
- BH 49735 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 2, 2019: Updated by Luke: Added builder
- August 31, 2014: New Street View added by Luke
- August 30, 2014: Updated by Luke: Corrected RR info
- August 30, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- September 26, 2011: Added by Brad Smith
Sources
- Brad Smith - gaberdine [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Shreveport Railroad Bridge South - HistoricBridges.org
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From my research this bridge was opened in 1907 and built by the Cotton Belt Railroad according to Eric J Brock's book "Shreveport in Vintage Postcards".