Union Pacific Railroad Underpass – Houston TX

City:
Houston, TX

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Started:
1936

Completed:
1936

Designer:
Texas Highway Department

Contractor:
Russ Mitchell Inc.

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

In 1936, the Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads built an underpass to separate the grade of Wayside Drive and the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad (now Union Pacific).

Source notes

Information listed on plaque on bridge

Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on July 20, 2016.

Location Info


300 block of S. Wayside Dr
Houston, Texas 77011
Harris County

Coordinates: 29.734999, -95.307084

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