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New Braunfels Avenue Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Southern Pacific RR on New Braunfels Avenue
- Location
- San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built for Morgan City, Louisiana in 1881; Relocated here 1910. Closed 1975; Demolished 1981
- Builders
- - Phoenix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
- Phoenix Iron Works of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
- Railroad
- - Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Design
- 7-panel, pinned Pratt through trusses
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.43540, -98.46084 (decimal degrees)
29°26'07" N, 98°27'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/552293/3256346 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 88867 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 7, 2020: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- April 5, 2020: Updated by Luke: Added imagery source; Linked bridge parts were reused from; Added dates
- April 5, 2020: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type
- April 5, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
Related Bridges
- ML&T - Atchafalaya River Bridge (Parts reused from)
Sources
- Geoff Hubbs
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Luke
- TexasEscapes - New Braunfels Street Bridge San Antonio Texas. - Imagery + Info
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
Comments
New Braunfels Avenue Bridge
Something is amiss here. The bridge shown is comprised of several Pratt trusses while the link for the previous location shows a series of Whipple spans.
New Braunfels Avenue Bridge
Melissa, if you would be so awesome as to grab pics from https://www.newspapers.com/image/53302177/?terms=%22New%2BBr...
New Braunfels Avenue Bridge
Heads up Geoff, imagery is actually copyrighted. I'm trying to find a pic on Newspapers.com Melissa can grab.
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FWIW the only pictures I can find of the Atchafalaya Basin Phoenix truss are all from the same bank, and there could have been Pratts as part of the approach on the opposing bank.