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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
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.
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]
Dallas’ Margaret Hunt Hill bridge places No. 83 on America’s Top 100 Most Iconic Bridges.The Bridge located in West Dallas connects Woodall Rodgers Freeway to Singleton Boulevard — a span ...
Arboretum Sewer Trestle (1910), Seattle, Washington, NRHP-listed [1] Adamson Bridge (1916), Cherry County, Nebraska, timber stringer trestle bridge built by the Canton Bridge Co. Formerly NRHP-listed. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge, Antietam Creek, Maryland; Bridge A 249, New Mexico; Chacahoula Swamp Bridge (1995), Louisiana; Clio Trestle ...
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.
The Third Street Railroad Trestle is an open-deck railroad trestle bridge built of creosote-coated pine timber.It is 150 ft (46 m) long and 30 ft (9.1 m) wide, rising to a height of 35 ft (11 m) above the bed of Shoal Creek.
The bridge, named for Fred Hartman (1908–1991), the editor and publisher of the Baytown Sun from 1950 to 1974, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas, and one of only four such bridges in the state, the others being Veterans Memorial Bridge in Orange County, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas and Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge in Erath ...