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The Harahan Bridge is a cantilevered through truss bridge [2] that carries two rail lines and a pedestrian bridge across the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee. The bridge is owned and operated by Union Pacific Railroad and is the second longest pedestrian/bicycle bridge in the United States (after the ...
This increased traffic led to the incorporation of West Memphis, Arkansas in 1927 where the Arkansas roadways leading to the Harahan Bridge came together, as well as the 1930 replacement by the Arkansas State Highway Commission (ASHC), the modern-day version of which oversees the Arkansas Department of Transportation, of the original wooden ...
Helena Bridge: US 49: Lula and Helena-West Helena: 1961 Charles W. Dean Bridge (Proposed. Outlook: distant future. Originally proposed to start construction around 2011) Future I-69 / US 278 [5]
In order of their opening years, these are the Frisco Bridge (1892, single-track rail), the Harahan Bridge (1916, a road-rail bridge until 1949, currently carries double-track rail), the Memphis-Arkansas Memorial Bridge (Highway, 1949; later incorporated into Interstate 55), and the Hernando de Soto Bridge (Interstate 40, 1973). A bicycle ...
In 1930, the Huey P. Long Bridge was opened, increasing the importance of Harahan and by 1940, the population had risen to 1,082 citizens. [ 11 ] During World War II, Camp Plauche was established on the current land occupied by Elmwood. [ 12 ]
Memphis & Arkansas, Frisco and Harahan bridges (1985) Four rail and highway bridges cross the Mississippi River at Memphis. They are, in order of their opening: the Frisco Bridge, the Harahan Bridge, the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge and the Hernando de Soto Bridge. The piers of the first three bridges had to be lined up for river navigation as ...
The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge opened in 1969, with the Holmes bridge providing a new span for Wilmington's Northside in 1980. Elsewhere in New Hanover County, the first bridge into Wrightsville ...
Frisco Bridge at Structurae; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. TN-14, "Memphis Bridge", 61 photos, 4 photo caption pages; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NE-2, "Nebraska City Bridge", 59 photos, 3 measured drawings, 511 data pages, 3 photo caption pages, discusses Chief Engineer George S. Morison and his many bridges, including nearly 50 pages about the Memphis ...