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UP-Elm Creek Bridge

Maverick County, Texas

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UP-Elm Creek Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in December 2020

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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BH Photo #490434

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Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Elm Creek on UP RR
Location
Maverick County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1905
Railroads
- Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railway (GHSA)
- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
Design
Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 302.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+28.79752, -100.46487   (decimal degrees)
28°47'51" N, 100°27'54" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/357036/3186433 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Deadmans Hill
Inventory number
BH 63020 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (15,719)
Built 1905 (799)
Built during 1900s (7,224)
Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railway (23)
Harriman Lines Common Standard Truss (43)
Maverick County, Texas (5)
Open (39,885)
Owned by railroad (12,424)
Pratt through truss (5,393)
Pratt truss (9,300)
 Railroad (15,426)
Southern Pacific Railroad (661)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,223)
Texas (2,471)
Through truss (15,075)
Timber stringer (4,019)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,231)
Truss (32,799)
Union Pacific Railroad (2,373)

Update Log 

  • February 13, 2021: New photos from C Hanchey
  • September 19, 2014: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley

Sources 

  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com

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