Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Red River on KO&T RR
- Location
- Grayson County, Texas
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1910; rehabilitated 1981
- Design
- Through truss
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 195.9 ft.
Total length: 1,118.2 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 19.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.75611, -96.41056 (decimal degrees)
33°45'22" N, 96°24'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/739842/3738127 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Achille
- Inventory number
- BH 33052 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 05/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 60.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
- 1,100
Comments
KO&T Railroad Bridge
It was a railroad bridge fifty years ago. It is a one lane auto bridge owned by the counties. It is quite obsolete here is a link that tells more about it.
http://www.texasescapes.com/CentralTexasTownsNorth/Carpenters-Bluff-Texas.htm
KO&T Railroad Bridge
How can a railroad bridge be obsolete?
Google maps show this is a highway bridge also.
Can anyone confirm?