UP - Pecos River High Bridge

Photos 

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

BH Photo #115024

Map 

Facts 

Overview

Massive cantilevered deck truss bridge over Pecos River on the Union Pacific Railroad

Location

Val Verde County, Texas

Status

Open to traffic

History

Built 1944, replacing an earlier 1892 viaduct

Builders

- Bethlehem Steel Co. of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Brown & Root Inc. of Houston, Texas
- Modjeski & Masters of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Railroads

- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)

Design

Cantilevered Warren deck truss

Dimensions

Length of largest span: 374.5 ft.
Total length: 1,390.5 ft.

Approximate latitude, longitude

+29.75787, -101.35794   (decimal degrees)
29°45'28" N, 101°21'29" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

14/271999/3294285 (zone/easting/northing)

Quadrangle map:

Pecos High Bridge

Inventory number

BH 36693 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Update Log 

• January 1, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
• February 15, 2010: Updated by Curtis Lee: Updated coordinates
• June 10, 2008: New photos from Historic American Engineering Record

Related Bridges 

• SP - Pecos River Viaduct (Predecessor)

Sources 

• Historic American Engineering Record
• Curtis Lee - clee47ford [at] yahoo [dot] com
• Wikipedia
• HAER TX-75 Southern Pacific Railroad, Pecos River Bridge
• Engineering News-Record 1945-11-15: Vol 135 Iss 20
• Geoff Hubbs

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