Carries Pedestrians Design BNIM | Opened 1892 | |
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Crosses Union Station railroad artery | ||
The Pencoyd Railroad Bridge is a former railroad bridge in Kansas City, Missouri that was converted into the Freight House Pedestrian Bridge and moved to its new location where it connects Union Station and the Crossroads Arts District.
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Bridge
The bridge was built in 1892 just south of the Second Hannibal Bridge as part of the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad which ran from Independence, Missouri to the Argentine District in Kansas City, Kansas. Going west from Independence, the line reached the Kansas City Southern Railway Manifest Yard in what is now the River Market, Kansas City. It crossed over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad track coming from the Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River in an area called The Gooseneck. It then crossed over the Missouri Pacific and proceeded west to Kansas City, Kansas.
Pedestrian crossing
In January 2006, it was relocated to the Union Station to be a pedestrian crossing over the railroad tracks at Union Station. The bridge was built as a three span thru-truss, but after relocation, it was rebuilt with two spans instead of three, and adapted into what was renamed the "Freight House Pedestrian Bridge."
In January 2014, it was renamed Michael R. Haverty Freight House Bridge in recognition of Mike Haverty, who was the Chair of the Union Station Kansas City Board from 2005 to 2012.