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FWWR - Trail Lake Drive Overpass

Tarrant County, Texas

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TrailLakeOverpass2

Photo taken by Rene Gomez in September 2019

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BH Photo #456197

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Steel stringer bridge over Trail Lake Drive on Fort Worth & Western Railroad
Location
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1904
Builder
- American Bridge Co. of New York
Railroads
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- Fort Worth & Western Railroad (FWWR)
Design
Steel stringer
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 48.9 ft.
Total length: 186.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+32.68192, -97.37342   (decimal degrees)
32°40'55" N, 97°22'24" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/652499/3617195 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Fort Worth
Inventory numbers
TXNBI 022200ZT6841001 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 66865 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (1,564)
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (457)
Beam (16,243)
Built 1904 (580)
Built during 1900s (7,436)
Fort Worth & Western Railroad (6)
Fort Worth, Texas (52)
Open (40,262)
 Owned by railroad (12,978)
Railroad (16,100)
Span length 25-50 feet (15,926)
Steel stringer (6,493)
Tarrant County, Texas (77)
Texas (2,493)
Timber stringer (4,160)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,337)

Update Log 

  • September 14, 2019: New photos from Rene Gomez

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FWWR - Trail Lake Drive Overpass
Posted July 14, 2019, by jesse berube (jesseberube5 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Easy access. There isn't many operational 100 year old bridges in DFW, only a handful still remain. Great place for train spotting.