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Warren pony truss Hays Street Bridge: 1908 2012-9-10 San Antonio: Bexar: Truss. Included in Historic Bridges of Texas MPS Hill Street Bridge over Buffalo Bayou: 1938 2007-10-31 Houston: Harris: Steel beam Houston Street Viaduct
The Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River is an eight-span through truss bridge [2] over the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas on Oklahoma State Highway 78/Texas State Highway 78. It was built as a federal relief project during the Great Depression as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal .
Construction on the Rainbow bridge, a cantilever truss bridge, began in 1936.It was contracted under the guidance of the Texas State Highway Department.Due to concerns by the upstream city of Beaumont about the bridge posing a threat to ship navigation, the Rainbow Bridge was built with a 680-foot (210 m) main span.
Texas Suspension Bridges Cable-stayed and Suspension: 2000 Austin: Travis: TX-98-A: Texas Suspension Bridges, Dr. Flinn's Model and Builders Plate Suspension: 2000 Austin: Travis: TX-99: South Presa Street Bridge Extant Lenticular truss: 2001 South Presa Street San Antonio River: San Antonio: Bexar
The 1,379.0 ft truss bridge was planned by the Texas Highway Department in 1929. Construction was completed by the Austin Bridge Company in 1937 at a cost of $188,000. United States Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Texas Highway Commissioner Robert Lee Bobbitt were featured speakers during the dedication ceremony. [3]
The bridge was the only camelback pony truss bridge remaining on a Texas state highway and the fourth-longest truss bridge in the Texas state highway system prior to being demolished. [3] The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, 1996. [1] In 2018, a new bridge was built at the location of the old bridge ...
The Brackenridge Park Bridge is a historic iron Lenticular truss bridge located in San Antonio, Texas. The bridge was built in 1890 and remains open for vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Composed of a single truss of just over 95 feet (29 m), it is one of the shortest lenticular truss bridges in the country and one of just eight located west of ...
The Old Iron Bridge, also referred to as Colorado River Bridge, is a 1,285-foot (392 m)-long bridge with three steel truss spans and concrete piers that crosses the Colorado River in Bastrop, Texas, United States. The bridge is one of the earliest surviving uses of the Parker truss in Texas. [1]