1910+2015 HoT/Sante Fe Trestle Fire over Colorado River near San Saba, TX

(Bridge Hunter broke Mar 22, 2023; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

HoT = Heart of Texas Railroad

The 900' (274m) trestle was built in 1910. [TrainFanatics]

The loss was estimated to be about $10m. [keyj]

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The trestle burned down May 23, 2013. [jcf-bridge] Here are the 18 photos from that webpage:

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The fire was "thermally treated." (That is a term I saw in an article about tank cars burning after a derailment. I presume it means they let it burn itself out.) The volunteer fire department had equipment and training to fight brush fires, not a trestle already engulfed in flames. Even if they had better equipment, there would not have been enough water to extinguish the fire.

May 2016: rtands, JCF Bridge and Concrete, Inc.
"The Heart of Texas Railroad (HTR) is being acquired by a managed affiliate of OmniTRAX, Inc., an affiliate of The Broe Group. The HTR acquisition is subject to Surface Transportation Board approval and will be renamed Central Texas & Colorado River Railway, LLC."