Facts
- Overview
- Open-spandrel arch bridge over Trinity River on Houston Street in Dallas
- Location
- Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
- Status
- Open to one-way southbound traffic
- History
- Built 1911
- Design
- Open-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 103.0 ft.
Total length: 4,785.3 ft.
Deck width: 33.1 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 1984
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.77408, -96.80619 (decimal degrees)
32°46'27" N, 96°48'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/705477/3628372 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Dallas
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 84001641 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 32929 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 05/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 50.2 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 3,050
Comments
As a young lad in on Jan 2, 1951 General Yardmaster Harmon Young hired me as a switchman to work on the steam engine number seven. I worked there until I went into the army in 1957. After the army I worked for the SLSF RR. Under the Houston Street bridge was my many many trips as we change to and fro between the eleven tracks at Dallas Union Station on the steam engine. On the West side of the bridge we had a Y that we turned trains and rr cars. The Y would hold seven rr cars. Once the Towerman put a TP frieght train under the bridge on the Y track and a load with auto frames that was too high destroyed some the bridge support beams. Th bridge as always a spot for drunks and folks that bumed rides on the freight trains. I have a lot of stories of Union Station in the early 1950s. I do not have any pictures.
i remember the old trolley and the sparks above it from the cables that ran it. amazed @ five years old!!