Bridgehunter.com | Abandoned UP - Brazos River Bridge (Simonton)

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Description

Plans have been for the bridge to be incorporated in a hike and bike trail and a concrete bridge extends across the river, though no improvements have been made on the truss bridge's track bed.

Facts

Overview: Camelback Through Truss bridge over Brazos River on railroad
Location: Simonton, Fort Bend County, Texas, and Austin County, Texas
Status: Abandoned
Future prospects: Plans have been for the bridge to be incorporated in a hike and bike trail and a concrete bridge extends across the river, though no improvements have been made on the truss bridge's track bed.
History: Built 1922
Builders: - Elder Construction Co. of San Antonio, Texas (Substructure)
- Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. of Roanoke, Virginia (Superstructure) [also known as Virginia Bridge Co.]
Railroads: - San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway (SA&AP)
- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Texas & New Orleans Railroad (TNO; T&NO)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
Design: Single abandoned 260 ft Camelback Skewed Through Truss section.
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 260.0 ft.
Total length: 1,200.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.0 ft.
Also called: SP - Brazos River Bridge (Simonton)
TNO - Brazos River Bridge (Simonton)
Approximate latitude, longitude: +29.67154, -96.02084 (decimal degrees)
29°40'18" N, 96°01'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 14/788341/3286102 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Wallis
Inventory number: BH 49394 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

June 14, 2019: Updated by Luke: Added builders
January 9, 2019: Updated by Luke: Added build date
July 22, 2014: New Street View added by Ralph Demars
August 22, 2011: Added by aaron leibold

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Old FM1093 Brazos River Bridge (Predecessor)

Sources

aaron leibold - aaron [dot] mightypenguin [at] gmail [dot] com
Railway Track & Structures Volume 18 - Book
Luke

Abandoned UP - Brazos River Bridge (Simonton)