1929,1971 UP/MoPac Baring Cross Bridges over Arkansas River in Little Rock, AK

1873: (EncyclopediaOfArkansas)

1890: (Bridge Hunter)  Destroyed by a flood in 1927

1929: (Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite) The lift span was added in 1971 as part of the McClellan-Kerr navigation project.

(The original content concerning the coaling tower in Gilman, IL, has been moved to here.)

UP still runs major railyard facilities in North Little Rock just north of this bridge.

The bridge is 1,100' (335m) long and contains a 340' (104m) main span. [HistoricBridges]

"It remains one of the busiest railroad bridges in the country." [EncyclopediaOfArkansas] I wonder how often the span has to be lifted. That is, was the navigation project another USACE boondoggle?

Street View

Courtesy of Clifton E. Hull via EncyclopediaOfArkansas
1873 Bridge taken after 1877 because the pedestrian and vehicle roadway atop the bridge is in place.

Alan Wray via both Bridge Hunters
1890 Bridge

Several Sources
1927 Flood

Courtesy of the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies via EncyclopediaOfArkansas
Construction of the 1929 bridge, Sep 15, 1928

Kevin Culver posted
Arkansas river at Little Rock

Photo taken by Bradley Widding via Bridge Hunter,
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
tweet, I checked out the tweet link to get the date of Jun 1, 2019 when I noticed how high the river was running. This is another reminder that there was a lot of flooding in the US during 2019.