I am in possession of a photograph scan of the LOW highway bridge
over the Pecos, in case anyone is curious and wants to see, let me
know. It's NOT mine, a Historical Society lady asked me to scan her
photo library and I kept the interesting one for a desktop pattern on
my pc.
Recently there was a coffee table book published depicting antique
photos of Texas scenery with the current photo of the same shot to
show the change over the years. The antique shot was the RR high
bridge and the modern shot was the HIGHWAY bridge. A mistake.
On May 19, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Bill Mixon wrote:
There are also some good stories about the US 90 bridges over the
Pecos. I
don't recall details, but there was an interesting video playing at
the
Seminole Canyon part visitors center some years ago.
Until surprisingly recently (after the Second World War, I
think) the
highway bridge over the Pecos was only a low-water crossing. Then a
steel
bridge, the old sort with overhead trusses, was constructed to be
safely
above the river. Within a very few years, a flood on the Pecos left
that
bridge covered with gravel, and it had barely been reopened to
traffic when
another flood was so high it wiped out the bridge entirely. So the
current
"high bridge" was built. I'll be surprised if it ever floods, but
don't
underestimate Mother Nature. -- Mixon
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