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UP - Seguin Avenue Overpass

Comal County, Texas

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UP (I&GN)-Seguin Avenue Overpass

Looking West

Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in October 2014

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BH Photo #297269

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Street View 

Description 

Destroyed 2014 and replaced with a large Pony plate girder. All pics are of the current bridge. The street view shows original bridge.

Facts 

Overview
Built 1936
Location
New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
built 1936
Railroads
- International & Great Northern Railroad (I&GN)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
Design
Steel stringer
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 53.2 ft.
Total length: 117.1 ft.
Skew angle
45 degrees
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.69606, -98.11447   (decimal degrees)
29°41'46" N, 98°06'52" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/585668/3285435 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
New Braunfels East
Inventory numbers
150460001610038
BH 63301 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (12,827)
Built 1936 (1,042)
Built during 1930s (10,824)
Comal County, Texas (15)
Concrete stringer (652)
Have street view (23,407)
International & Great Northern Railroad (9)
Lost (19,548)
New Braunfels, Texas (11)
 Owned by railroad (10,247)
Railroad (13,559)
Replaced by new bridge (12,904)
Skewed (4,748)
Span length 50-75 feet (9,111)
Steel stringer (5,011)
Texas (2,299)
Total length 100-125 feet (4,745)
Union Pacific Railroad (2,007)

Update Log 

  • October 4, 2014: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley

Sources 

  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com

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