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Pecos River High Bridge

Val Verde County, Texas
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Overview
Massive cantilevered deck truss bridge over Pecos River on the Union Pacific Railroad
Location
Val Verde County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1944, replacing an earlier 1892 viaduct
Builders
- Bethlehem Steel Co. of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Brown & Root Inc.
- Modjeski and Masters
Design
Cantilevered Warren deck truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 374.5 ft.
Total length: 1,390.5 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.75787, -101.35794   (decimal degrees)
29°45'28" N, 101°21'29" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/271999/3294285 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Pecos High Bridge
Inventory number
BH 36693 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bethlehem Steel Co. (50)
Brown & Root Inc. (2)
Built 1944 (72)
Built during 1940s (2,808)
Cantilevered (245)
Cantilevered truss (223)
Deck truss (961)
Modjeski and Masters (11)
Open (28,452)
Owned by railroad (4,119)
Pecos River (6)
 Railroad (4,220)
Span length 250-500 feet (867)
Tall Bridges (163)
Texas (1,537)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,223)
Truss (23,609)
Union Pacific Railroad (832)
Val Verde County, Texas (3)
Warren deck truss (343)
Warren truss (3,956)

Update Log 

  • February 15, 2010: Updated by Curtis Lee: Updated coordinates
  • June 10, 2008: New photos from Historic American Engineering Record

Sources 

  • Historic American Engineering Record
  • Curtis Lee - clee47ford [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Wikipedia
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Pecos River High Bridge
Posted October 24, 2009, by Carolyn

I think this is a photo of the Pecos River High Bridge.

It came from the Scottish Rite Temple in Galveston, TX. Now resides at Oasis Juice Bar in Galveston.

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