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UP - Brazos River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Camelback through truss bridge over Brazos River on Union Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Waller County, Texas, and Austin County, Texas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1906
- Builder
- - Pennsylvania Steel Co. of Steelton, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Two riveted Camelback Through Truss Main Span sections each 210ft long resting on concrete piers. Western approach span is a single 150ft long Pratt Through Truss fed by a 200ft timber stringer.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 210.0 ft.
Total length: 770.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
- Also called
- MKT - Brazos River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.77177, -96.03617 (decimal degrees)
29°46'18" N, 96°02'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/786571/3297178 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- San Felipe
- Inventory number
- BH 49393 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 4, 2013: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- December 9, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- August 22, 2011: Added by aaron leibold
Related Bridges
- MKT - Brazos River Bridge (Old) (Predecessor)
Sources
- aaron leibold - aaron [dot] mightypenguin [at] gmail [dot] com
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Alternate photo of Columbus, TX UP Railroad bridge. Taken in 2002.