Rating:
56618
{90}%
4 votes
BNSF - Black River Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Terry Traver in January 2013
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BH Photo #256243
Description
ATSF Bridge Records state a build date of 1907, however this span may have been moved here from another crossing in 1907.
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned Parker Through Truss over Black River on abandoned BNSF Railroad
- Location
- Eddy County, New Mexico
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built Ca. 1890, Relocated Here 1907
- Railroads
- - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 200.0 ft.
Total length: 200.0 ft.
- Also called
- ATSF Black River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.23603, -104.07465 (decimal degrees)
32°14'10" N, 104°04'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/587180/3566974 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Malaga
- Inventory number
- BH 56618 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 16, 2013: New Street View added by Craig Philpott
- June 15, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway", "Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway"
- June 15, 2013: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
- June 15, 2013: Added by Terry Traver
This bridge was on the ATSF (Later BNSF) Railroad route between Clovis, NM and Pecos, TX. The track south of Loving, NM, including this bridge, was abandoned in December of 2001.