Nostalgia & History > Texas Ramblings - Pecos River Bridge

Amtrak's westbound Sunset Limited, train 1, had P32-8BWH 510 passing the abandoned Southern Pacific water tank at Pecos River Bridge, TX. I tried to nail the Sunset Limited on this huge bridge but the pilot misjudged the timing. September 20, 1992.

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No doubt why Judge Roy Bean settled down in this place.

You have to know the Trans-Pecos to love it.

Cozephyr, have you ever driven across that bridge, it's on US90 I think, that crosses the upper part of Lake Armistead just a little ways out of Del Rio? I can't think of what river that was. Anyway, when the water is low enough, you can look over the sides of that bridge, on its south side I believe, and see the abandoned tunnel portal that the SP had at one time. It's kind of interesting to see.

Con

By the time the river? gets to I20 near Pecos there ain't nothing left. Been all sucked out upstream.

xtra1188w Wrote:
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Yes, I've driven the US 90 bridge you mentioned several times. No, I missed checking out the SP tunnel portal. I lived in that area for a couple years.

> Cozephyr, have you ever driven across that bridge,
> it's on US90 I think, just a little ways out of Del
> Rio? I can't think of what river that was.
> Anyway, when the water is low enough, you can look
> over the sides of that bridge, on its south side I
> believe, and see the abandoned tunnel portal that
> the SP had.

Amtrak's train 1, westbound Sunset Limited, crossed the Southern Pacific's huge Pecos River Bridge on July 5, 1992 behind P32-8BWH 512. Train was running 2 hours 30 minutes late.

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