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Cedar Creek Vertical Lift Train Bridge
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Cedar Creek Vertical Lift Train Bridge
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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Removed as of January 2020.
Was a warren through truss vertical lift standard gauge railroad bridge.
The super structure was designed by Waddell & Harrington and built in 1912 by Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. over the St. Francis River in Cody, Lee County, Arkansas. It was relocated to Baytown in 1967.
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Type: Outdoors
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: Easy
Recommendation: forget it - It's gone!
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rust
unsafe flooring
water
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You can climb to the top and get a great view.
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gloves
Unless you want to walk from Hwy 99, an ATV or dirt bike is handy. I found this riding my street legal dirt bike in the trails.
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Was listed as for sale prior to removal, unclear if it was sold and where it went. This is from the Union Pacific sale flyer:
The Cedar Bayou Bridge includes a vertical lift span that was originally constructed in 1912 over the St. Francis River in Cody, Lee County, Arkansas. The bridge carried a railroad line of the St.Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (Iron Mountain; Missouri Pacific Railroad after 1917).
The bridge was designed by Waddell & Harrington. The foundation work was completed by the Kansas City Bridge Company, and the bridge was fabricated and erected by the Virginia Bridge & Iron Company. This vertical lift span bridge, when erected in 1912, consisted of twelve single track deck plate girder spans, one single track through riveted vertical lift span, with towers, counterweights and operating machinery, all on concrete piers, and trestle approaches at each end. Each deck plate girder span was 75-feet long and weighed 450 tons.
The full length of the bridge was 1,069 feet. The lift span, which rose to 70-feet above the high water mark, was a 162-foot through riveted truss span. Although the vertical lift span was rarely put into use, the bridge remained in operation until 1967, when the Missouri Pacific Railroad abandoned its line between Marianna and Memphis. Concurrently, the Missouri Pacific was building a new rail line near Baytown, Texas, to serve the U.S. Steel Texas Works steel mill, which was also under construction. The new steel mill was located on the East side of Cedar Bayou, whereas Baytown and the railroad connections were on the West side. Therefore, to reach the plant, the Missouri Pacific needed to bridge Cedar Bayou, which was a navigable channel.
As described by Missouri Pacific Railroad’s chief engineer E.T. Franzen, “[the] track that we are building out of Baytown, Tex. required, by ruling of the Corps of Engineers, a high-level crossing or movable span. The high-level crossing was not economical, and fortunately, we had available in a line recently abandoned west of Memphis a 162-ft. lift span” (Franzen 1968: 505-510). Although it would require an 830-mile move of a 260-ton truss span, plus two 75-foot approach girder spans and the 118-foot towers, this move was still less costly than new construction. The spans and towers were floated on barges down the Mississippi River and across the Gulf of Mexico to the new location near Baytown. The lift span and approach spans were erected as part of an 853-foot long bridge. Although the lift span, approach spans, and towers were moved, the other elements of the Cedar Bayou Bridge were built in 1967: the substructure, the spans extending east of the east approach span, the counter weights, and the electric motor and its housing atop the lift span.
In 1982, UP acquired Missouri Pacific, including the line serving the U.S. Steel mill. U.S. Steel operated the steel mill until 1986, and another manufacturer operated the mill for two more years. The steel mill shut down permanently in 1988 and was redeveloped as the Cedar Point Industrial Park.
In 1996, the Union Pacific Railroad merged with the Southern Pacific Railroad, which had a separate line to the US Steel site at Cedar Point, rendering the line duplicative.
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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| Coolness |
8 / 10 |
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5 / 10 |
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Emperor Wang on 4/25/2021 1:29 AM.
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on Apr 25 21 at 1:29, Emperor Wang validated this location
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