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Old FM1093 Brazos River Bridge
Photos
Looking west
Photo taken by Patrick Feller
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
BH Photo #289204
Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Brazos River on an old alignment of FM1093
- Location
- Austin County, Texas, and Fort Bend County, Texas
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge upstream
- History
- Built ca. 1890; Converted 1922; Damaged when a log jam took out the western piers around 1958; Closed 1960 when it was discovered the middle pier was sinking; Replaced on a new alignment 1965
- Railroad
- - San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway (SA&AP)
- Design
- 2 112' through trusses
- Also called
- SA&AP - Brazos River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.67080, -96.02059 (decimal degrees)
29°40'15" N, 96°01'14" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/788367/3286021 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Wallis
- Inventory number
- BH 52924 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 3, 2020: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 9, 2019: Updated by Luke: Added info
- July 25, 2014: Photo imported by Patrick Feller
- July 22, 2014: Updated by Luke: Added categories "San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway", "Rail-to-road"
- August 9, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Railroad"
- July 14, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- UP - Brazos River Bridge (Simonton) (Successor)
Sources
- Luke
- University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection - 1960 Topo map showing this bridge as being a road
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
Comments
Old FM1093 Brazos River Bridge
There remains compelling evidence for a railroad origin for the bridge supports still visible. Among that evidence:
http://books.google.com/books?id=6H47AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA389&lpg=P...
While the structure of the riveted piers might support the argument for a bridge preceding the FM road, concrete rubble near the southwest bank supports the argument for a road.
It wouldn't be the first time that a bridge (or at least its substructure) had served two purposes over time.
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Unfortunately I've yet to find an image of the bridge, but https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10460384/ shows that the bridge was closed due to a failing pier.
HistoricAerials has amazing aerial views of the long-lost truss.