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BNSF - Pecos River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Pecos River on Southwestern Railroad
- Location
- Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico
- History
- Built 1911 using secondhand spans
- Railroads
- - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Southwestern Railroad (SW)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 406.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.43738, -104.22492 (decimal degrees)
32°26'15" N, 104°13'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/572861/3589182 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Carlsbad East
- Elevation
- 3115 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 56620 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 18, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: added information
- May 17, 2021: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- June 16, 2013: Added by Craig Philpott
Sources
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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I’ve added a relocation date. Unfortunately my ATSF bridge records for the Pecos Division are lacking. However, I’m guessing this one was relocated here. Based on a nearly identical bridge in Kansas, I would assume this one dates to approximately 1890. It appears it’s also had a number of modifications.