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69th Street Bridge

Harris County, Texas

Photos 

Courtesy of the Houston Chronicle; Used under Fair Use

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BH Photo #456592

Map 

Description 

John Alexander Lower Waddell a lift bridge engineer specializes in vertical lift bridges also designs bascule bridges with his partner John L Harrington, the opposite is Joseph Baermann Strauss who specializes in designing bascule bridges but design vertical and direct lift bridges. This bridge is a Waddell & Harrington type, and if you look at Nathan Holth's page of the Morgan Murray lift bridge you will see the design plan of this particular bascule bridge with a fixed bridge approach.

Facts 

Overview
Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Buffalo Bayou on 69th Street/US 90
Location
Houston, Harris County, Texas
Status
Removed but not replaced
History
First shows up on maps 1946; removed 1983
Builders
- J.A.L. Waddell of Port Hope, Canada
- Waddell & Harrington of Kansas City, Missouri
Design
Pratt through truss bascule
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.75428, -95.29784   (decimal degrees)
29°45'15" N, 95°17'52" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/277804/3293770 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Settegast
Inventory number
BH 66817 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bascule (1,084)
Buffalo Bayou (19)
Harris County, Texas (129)
Houston, Texas (88)
J.A.L. Waddell (22)
Lost (28,488)
Lost 1983 (121)
Lost during 1980s (1,533)
Movable (3,115)
Navigable waterway (2,204)
 Owned by city (6,082)
Pratt through truss (6,057)
Pratt truss (10,299)
Riveted (2,510)
Texas (2,903)
Through truss (16,792)
Truss (35,469)
US 90 (71)
Waddell & Harrington (48)

Update Log 

  • September 7, 2021: Updated by Douglas Butler: Added Builder
  • November 20, 2019: New photo from Luke
  • September 26, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • September 25, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • September 22, 2019: New photo from Luke
  • March 30, 2015: Added by Ian Martin

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Comments 

69th Street Bridge
Posted September 7, 2021, by Douglas Butler

Hey Nathan

Your page of the Morgan Murray bridge has a design planned bascule bridge with the fixed bridge approach. They must of decided to build a vertical lift bridge instead in Tacoma Washington then use the design to build this one here.