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ATSF - Mud Bayou Bridge
Photos
Copy-Photo Of 1934 Aerial Photo, View To The East, By The U.S. Army Air Corps, Showing Bridge Tender's Station And Mud Bayou Railway Bridge Under Construction
Photo taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #314949
Description
Designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston district between 1933-36 in conjunction with the construction of the Louisiana-Texas (LA-TEX) intracoastal waterway project, the High Island Bridge Tender's Station was built to facilitate the operation of a railway bridge where the Gulf and Interstate Railway Company's line crossed Mud Bayou near High Island. For more than 30 years resident engineers at the station coordinated and carried out the bridge's movement to allow passage of commercial, military and civilian vessels between the Sabine River and Galveston Bay...
-- Historic American Buildings Survey
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren through truss with all verticals bridge over Intracoastal Waterway/Mud Bayou on Santa Fe Railroad (former Gulf & Interstate Railway)
- Location
- High Island, Galveston County, Texas
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- History
- Built 1934, lost 1969
- Builder
- - Tellepsen Construction Co. of Houston, Texas (Contractor)
- Railroads
- - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway (GC&SF)
- Design
- Warren through truss with all verticals
- Also called
- ATSF - Intracoastal Waterway Bridge
ATSF - High Island Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.59474, -94.38854 (decimal degrees)
29°35'41" N, 94°23'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/365531/3274685 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- High Island
- Inventory number
- BH 65827 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 3, 2020: Updated by Luke: Added contractor
- September 25, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- February 2, 2015: Added by Ian Martin
Sources
- Ian Martin
- HABS TX-3404 - High Island Bridge Tender's Station, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud Bayou, High Island, Galveston County, TX
- Douglas Butler
- Luke