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TX-43: Rainbow Bridge: Extant Cantilever: 1938 1996 SH 73 / SH 87 westbound Neches River: Port Arthur and Bridge City: Jefferson and Orange: TX-44: Rocky Creek Bridge Relocated Pratt truss: 1919 1996 Hilltop Road Boggy Creek Shiner: Lavaca
Iron Bridge: 1883 1978-12-22 Bastrop: Bastrop: Truss Type Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway and Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Overpass: 1935 1984-06-07 Sweetwater: Nolan: Concrete arched-girder.
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.
Bridgeport is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,923 in 2020. [ 4 ] In 2009, Bridgeport was named by the Texas Legislature as the Stagecoach Capital of Texas.
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Santiago Calatrava designed the bridge with a beautiful 400-foot arch with 58 steel cables strung across the structure.
The bridge, which opened in March 2012, is the first of a series of bridges that the office of Santiago Calatrava designed to span the Trinity River in downtown Dallas. [7] The bridge connects Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway) in downtown to Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas. [8] Construction on the bridge began in December 2005. [9]
It is popularly called the "Old Bridge" (Spanish: Puente Viejo) because its original incarnation, still standing, is the city's oldest international bridge. In 1999, Texas state Historical marker 11778 was placed at the site by the Texas Historical Commission and the Cameron County Historical Commission to recognize the bridge's historical ...
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