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The current Pecos River High Bridge is a steel deck truss bridge on slip-formed concrete piers, ranging in height up to 275 feet (84 m). It was designed by Modjeski and Masters of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , with foundations constructed by Brown and Root of Houston and trusses fabricated by Bethlehem Steel Company of Chicago.
Some bridges are measured from the beginning of the entrance ramp to the end of the exit ramp. Some are measured from shoreline to shoreline. Yet others use the length of the total construction involved in building the bridge. Since there is no standard, no ranking of a bridge should be assumed because of its position in the list.
It was finished in December 1906 and, at that time, was the longest rail trestle in the United States and the third longest bridge of its kind in the world. It has 18 towers for support. Other trestles constructed since that time are longer, such as the Hi-Line Railroad Bridge in Valley City, North Dakota, which is 3,860 feet (1,180 m) long.
This is a list of the major current and former bridges in the United States. ... Location State Ref. 1: ... Texas Texas [82] [83] 37: Dames Point Bridge ...
The clearance below required under bridges for the largest ships—container ships, ocean liners and cruise ships—is around 220 feet (67 m) so there are often bridges with approximately that height located in coastal cities with bays or inlets, such as New York City's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. [1]
A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames. A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of isosceles triangles joined at their apices by a plank or beam such as the support structure for a trestle table .
Lenticular truss bridge. Included in Brackenridge Park Historic District listing. Brazoria Bridge: 1939 1991-06-14 Brazoria: Brazoria: Parker through truss: Bunton Branch Bridge: 1915, 1917, 1932 2002-02-19 Kyle
It is unclear exactly when in the early 1920s the current trestle was built. The Texas Historical Commission notes that the I–GN railway work in west Austin was concentrated in the period 1922–1926 and estimates that the Third Street Railroad Trestle was built c. 1922, whereas the Austin Historic Landmark Commission dates the bridge to 1925.