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Bastrop Bridge

Bastrop County, Texas

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Bastrop Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in August 2009

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BH Photo #144710

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Overview
Three-span through truss bridge over the Colorado River in Bastrop
Location
Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas
Status
Open to pedestrians only
History
Built 1922; Bypassed by new bridge in 1958
Builder
- Kansas City Bridge Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
Design
Parker through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 194.9 ft.
Total length: 1,285.2 ft.
Deck width: 19.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.1 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1990
Also called
Colorado River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+30.10996, -97.32247   (decimal degrees)
30°06'36" N, 97°19'21" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/661626/3332157 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Bastrop
Inventory numbers
NRHP 90001031 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
TXNBI 140110C00045001 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 32754 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bastrop County, Texas (19)
Bastrop, Texas (2)
Bridgemapper.com (1,325)
Built 1922 (743)
Built during 1920s (10,256)
Colorado River (Texas) (38)
Have street view (28,892)
Kansas City Bridge Co. (144)
NR-listed (3,013)
One-lane traffic (7,833)
 Open to pedestrians (4,579)
Owned by city (6,079)
Parker through truss (1,406)
Parker truss (1,801)
Span length 175-250 feet (2,058)
Sufficiency rating zero (193)
Texas (2,903)
Through truss (16,737)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,991)
Truss (35,407)

Update Log 

  • May 8, 2018: New Street View added by Leslie R Trick
  • May 8, 2018: New photos from Royce and Bobette Haley
  • February 28, 2014: Photo imported by Dave King
  • June 2, 2010: New Street View added by Ruth Reynolds
  • August 10, 2009: Updated by C Hanchey: Added NRHP info and bridge builder

Sources 

  • C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Ruth Reynolds - ruthmusic [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Todd Wilson
  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Leslie R Trick - Leslie [dot] Trick [at] gmail [dot] com
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Bastrop Bridge
Posted May 11, 2017, by theresa jara (theresajara [at] aol [dot] com)

This is the Bridge where a key scene was filmed for the horror film "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2"

Bastrop Bridge
Posted July 22, 2010, by Matthew Lohry

Hey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Missouri--see? It's not difficult to leave an historic bridge standing next to its replacement!

Bastrop Bridge
Posted March 17, 2008, by Lugnuts (lugnuts969 [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

Great photos, Ken! I love good night photography because I can't do it.

Bastrop Bridge
Posted March 16, 2008, by Ken Miller (dermoons [at] earthlink [dot] net)

Text from the National Historical Register

The Colorado River Bridge is a 1,285 foot-long concrete and steel structure with three steel truss spans, concrete piers and a long concrete approach at its west end. The bridge roadway is 20 feet wide and it crosses the Colorado River as state highway Loop 150 two blocks west of the Bastrop Commercial Historic District (N.R. 1978). While the Colorado River is normally contained within a 200-foot-wide channel 60 feet beneath the roadway, the bridge spans a much broader wooded flood plain.

The three bridge spans over the river bed consist of identical Parker through trusses, each 192 feet in length, supported on broad tapered concrete piers between spans. The riveted steel Parker trusses have a gently arced top chord, divided into seven sections by vertical struts.

Bids on the project were solicited and the Kansas City Bridge Co. was selected as contractor

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