Abandoned Santa Fe Railroad Bridge Over Unnamed Tributary of Henrietta Creek
Plate Girder Built Around 1910.
The Santa Fe Railroad representative came to the Maloney ranch seeking right-of-way for the railroad in the 1880s. Mr. Maloney told them to let the wheels of progress roll across someone else's property. Later, Mrs. Maloney said it would be nice to be able to ride the train in to Fort Worth. Mr. Maloney saddled up his horse and rode down to the railroad. He told the workmen they could go through. One man asked what he had said. "He has let us go through." Joel C. Harmmond, the railroad contractor for the guild, Colorado & Santa Fe, was from Haslet, Michigan. "We'll name this stop Has let--," he said. The settlers in the area and the railroad works gave credit of the name to Mr. Maloney: has let the railroad come through, the year 1886.
Billed as the world's first purely industrial airport, the Alliance Airport was developed in a joint venture between the City of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Hillwood Development Company, a real estate development company owned by Ross Perot Jr.
The official groundbreaking ceremonies were held in July 1988, and the airport officially opened on December 14, 1989.
A $260 million runway and taxiway extension project was completed in April 2018 to allow heavily loaded cargo aircraft to take off from either runway in hot and high Texas summer weather conditions and reach Europe unrefueled.
The project had been under construction since 2003 and required the relocation of nearby sections of Farm to Market Road 156 and a BNSF Railway line.
