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69th Street Bridge
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)
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
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.