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UP Yale Street Overpass

Harris County, Texas
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Photo taken by Patrick Feller

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Overview
Steel stringer bridge over Yale Street on Railroad
Location
Houston, Harris County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1936
Builders
- Brown & Root Inc. (Contractor)
- Gibb Gilchrest (engineer)
- Gulf Bitulithio Co. (Contractor)
- Mosher Steel Co. of Dallas, Texas
- Texas Highway Department
Design
Steel stringer
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 45.9 ft.
Total length: 47.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.77141, -95.39735   (decimal degrees)
29°46'17" N, 95°23'50" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/268218/3295865 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Houston Heights
Inventory numbers
TXNBI 121020B71457080 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 52631 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
1,000

Categories 

Beam (6,046)
Brown & Root Inc. (2)
Built 1936 (746)
Built during 1930s (8,551)
Gibb Gilchrest (1)
Gulf Bitulithio Co. (1)
Harris County, Texas (60)
Houston, Texas (41)
Mosher Steel Co. (2)
 Open (28,312)
Owned by railroad (4,042)
Railroad (4,070)
Southern Pacific Railroad (150)
Span length 25-50 feet (10,053)
Steel stringer (2,325)
Texas (1,527)
Texas Highway Department (1)
Total length 25-50 feet (7,628)

Update Log 

  • June 8, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Railroad", "Southern Pacific Railroad"

Sources 

  • Luke Harden - lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com

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