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Rainbow Bridge

Jefferson County, Texas, and Orange County, Texas

Photos 

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

BH Photo #115056

Map 

Street Views 

Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Neches River on Westbound TX 73 in Port Arthur
Location
Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, and Orange County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Opened Sept. 8, 1938; parallel bridge built 1991; rehabilitated and reopened to northbound traffic in 1998
Builders
- Ash, Howard, Needles, & Tammen of Kansas City, Missouri
- George Wickline of the Texas Highway Department's Bridge Division
- Taylor-Fitcher Steel Construction Co.
- Texas Highway Department
- Union Bridge & Construction Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
Design
Cantilevered Warren through and deck truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 680.2 ft.
Total length: 7,741.5 ft. (1.5 mi.)
Deck width: 22.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
Also called
Port Arthur-Orange Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.98000, -93.87111   (decimal degrees)
29°58'48" N, 93°52'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/415964/3316888 (zone/easting/northing)
Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
16,000
Inventory numbers
NRHP 96001127 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
TXNBI 201240030603015 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 33135 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of July 2016)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 42.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Arched Cantilever Truss (20)
Ash, Howard, Needles, & Tammen (9)
Built 1938 (832)
Built during 1930s (11,376)
Cantilevered (305)
Cantilevered truss (249)
County line crossing (505)
George Wickline of the Texas Highway Department's Bridge Division (1)
Have street view (25,958)
Jefferson County, Texas (25)
Navigable waterway (2,097)
Neches River (17)
Open (38,802)
Orange County, Texas (17)
 Over a mile long (279)
Owned by state (15,370)
Port Arthur, Texas (10)
Span length 500-1000 feet (373)
Structurally deficient (15,367)
Taylor-Fitcher Steel Construction Co. (1)
Texas (2,402)
Texas Highway Department (19)
Through truss (14,405)
Total length over 2500 feet (838)
Truss (31,735)
Union Bridge & Construction Co. (22)
Warren through truss (1,577)
Warren truss (6,355)

Update Log 

  • March 26, 2015: New photos from Royce and Bobette Haley
  • June 2, 2014: Photo imported by Patrick Feller
  • September 21, 2011: New photo from Nathan Morton
  • April 13, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
  • June 10, 2008: New photos from Historic American Engineering Record

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