Over Cross Bayou at Spring St., Shreveport, Louisiana. County/parish: Caddo.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 23, 1995. NRIS 95000347.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Kansas City Southern Railroad Bridge (Cross Bayou), in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, is an "A" Truss bridge erected in its current location in 1926 and abandoned in the 1980s. Due to its national significance to the progress of American bridge design, and its rarity as one of only two known surviving examples, the structure was designated a National Historic Place in 1995.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73973183