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Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge

El Paso County, Texas, and Dona Ana County, New Mexico
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Photos 

Overall View of Bridge, Looking North

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

Map 

Street View 

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Facts 

Overview
Deck truss bridge over the Rio Grande on Southern Pacific Railroad
Location
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, and Dona Ana County, New Mexico
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1917
Design
Pratt deck truss with deck plate girder approaches
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 117.1 ft.
Total length: 1,152.0 ft.
Also called
El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+31.78868, -106.52690   (decimal degrees)
31°47'19" N, 106°31'37" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
13/355438/3518027 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Smeltertown
Inventory numbers
TXNBI 240720000104015 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 32972 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
24,000

Categories 

Built 1917 (395)
Built during 1910s (6,730)
Deck girder (1,800)
Deck truss (953)
Dona Ana County, New Mexico (5)
El Paso County, Texas (4)
El Paso, Texas (3)
Girder (3,236)
Have street view (9,889)
New Mexico (103)
Open (28,309)
Owned by railroad (4,039)
 Plate girder (2,250)
Pratt deck truss (169)
Pratt truss (5,658)
Railroad (4,070)
Rio Grande (18)
Southern Pacific Railroad (150)
Span length 100-125 feet (3,299)
State line crossing (513)
Texas (1,526)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,213)
Truss (23,566)
Union Pacific Railroad (793)

Update Log 

  • April 1, 2010: Updated by Craig Philpott: updated design, dimensions, added street view
  • May 2, 2009: Updated by Rick Mattioni: Bridge information updated.

Sources 

  • Rick Mattioni
  • HAER TX-78 - El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Rio Grande Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande at Southwestern Railroad, El Paso, El Paso County, TX
  • Craig Philpott - cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu

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