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UP - Barton Springs Road Overpass

Travis County, Texas

Photos 

UP(MOPAC)-Barton Springs Road Overpass

Photo taken by Larry D. Moore in October 2014

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #305598

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
1936 Deck plate girder/multibeam
Location
Austin, Travis County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
1936 Deck plate girder/multibeam
Builders
- Gibb Gilchrist of Wills Point, Texas
- Word & Worrell of Fort Worth, Texas
Railroads
- Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
Design
Deck plate girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 67.9 ft.
Total length: 139.1 ft.
Deck width: 15.0 ft.
Skew angle
10 degrees
Also called
MoPac - Barton Springs Road Overpass
Approximate latitude, longitude
+30.26061, -97.75710   (decimal degrees)
30°15'38" N, 97°45'26" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/619564/3348316 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Austin West
Inventory numbers
142270B00226008
BH 63050 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Austin, Texas (32)
Built 1936 (1,157)
Built during 1930s (11,746)
Deck girder (5,742)
Gibb Gilchrist (14)
Girder (10,231)
Have street view (26,929)
Missouri Pacific Railroad (380)
Open (39,880)
Owned by railroad (12,415)
 Plate girder (7,920)
Railroad (15,409)
Skewed (4,906)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,073)
Texas (2,471)
Total length 125-175 feet (5,919)
Travis County, Texas (44)
Union Pacific Railroad (2,372)
Word & Worrell (2)

Update Log 

  • October 22, 2014: New photos from Larry D. Moore
  • September 19, 2014: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley

Sources 

  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Larry D. Moore

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