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Photo taken by David Miles

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Article from the Texarkana Gazette 5-17-08. Details about rehab and opening ceremony.

Scanned by Wayne Kizziar courtesy of the Texarkana Gazette

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Overview

View of Little Rock side elevator and stairs.

Photo taken by Wayne Kizziar

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Signage.

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On The Bridge

On the elevated lift span looking toward North Little Rock.

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Map

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Facts

Overview: Vertical-lift through truss bridge over the Arkansas River on the Union Pacific Railroad in Little Rock
Location: North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
Status: Rehabilitation complete open to pedestrians as of 05-17-08
Design: Vertical lift Warren through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude: +34.75027, -92.26636 (decimal degrees)
34°45'01" N, 92°15'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/567149/3845594 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Little Rock
Inventory number: BH 10538 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

May 26, 2008: New photos from Wayne Kizziar
May 17, 2008: Updated by Wayne Kizziar: Bridge now open to pedestrians
March 31, 2006: Posted photo from David Miles

Sources

David Miles - imchillindave [at] yahoo [dot] com
Wayne Kizziar - wayne1701 [at] cableone [dot] net

Comments

Junction Bridge

Posted June 1, 2008, by Wayne (wayne1701 [at] cableone [dot] net)

Hey Max, yes Choctaw bridge & Rock Island are one and the same.

Wayne

Junction Bridge

Posted May 31, 2008, by Max

this bridge Fred and Wayne call the "Choctaw" bridge, is this the Rock Island bridge beside the Clinton library?

can anyone clear that up?

Junction Bridge

Posted May 31, 2008, by Wayne (wayne1701 [at] cableone [dot] net)

Thanks Fred,

They really did a great job on the bridge. Go see it as soon as you are able, it is well worth the trip.

Hopefully they will start on the Choctaw soon.

Best regards,

Wayne Kizziar

Junction Bridge

Posted May 30, 2008, by Fredrick Garcia (fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com)

Wayne,

Sensational photographs of the Junction Bridge. Hope to get across it real soon. Love the pedestrian connection between LR & NLR. Will be great when the Choctaw lift span is rehabed in the same manner.

Fred Garcia

Hot Springs Village

Junction Bridge

Posted May 28, 2008, by Randy Brush

THANK YOU SHOW ME PHOTO OF Junction Bridge. I have photo at there since August 2002. It was open about 1950. track was removed on bridge after summer 2000. THANK YOU.

Junction Bridge

Posted May 22, 2008, by Max Johnson

Its great they did that!

I love to see somthing like a truss bridge saved.

Its like a historic building saved

Junction Bridge

Posted April 20, 2006, by Anonymous

That's actually one of the most beautiful photos of a bridge that I've seen.