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Facts
- Overview
- Massive cantilevered deck truss bridge over Pecos River on the Union Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Val Verde County, Texas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1944, replacing an earlier 1892 viaduct
- Builders
- - Bethlehem Steel Co. (superstructure)
- Brown & Root (substructure)
- Modjeski and Masters (designers)
- Design
- Cantilevered deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 374.5 ft.
Total length: 1,390.5 ft.
- USGS topographic map
- Pecos High Bridge
- Inventory number
- BH 36693 (Bridgehunter.com ID)