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A trestle on California Western Railroad and Navigation Co.

A trestle on California Western Railroad and Navigation Co.

Photograph shows train, with smoke blowing, moving across the tracks; passengers standing outside on last railroad car. No. 409. Additional title on item: California. Trestle on the California Western Railroad ... More

Virginia & Truckee ore train Crown Point trestle ; Virginia & Truckee R.R. express and depot ; Early day scene in gold canyon when gold was first discovered in Nevada in 1850.

Virginia & Truckee ore train Crown Point trestle ; Virginia & Truckee ...

Photographs show trains, train depot, and trestle bridge; also earlier photograph of men looking for gold; at the Comstock Lode, Nevada. Illus. in: Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the principal views of Vi... More

Little Inferno, Peru, trestle between two perpendicular wall thousands of feet high

Little Inferno, Peru, trestle between two perpendicular wall thousands...

Photograph shows two men sitting in handcar on a railroad trestle on the Ferrovias Central Ajina railroad beside a steep mountain; a man and woman stand along side handcar. Copyright 1916 by Brown & Dawson and ... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, north of Paradise Street, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, no...

Significance: With its sixteen plate-girder spans of various ages, is an excellent example of American railroads' practice of recycling main-line structures into branches and sidings. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, Crossing Wolf Creek at Milepost 339.78, Chama, Rio Arriba County, NM

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, ...

Significance: The San Juan Extension (SJE) of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG), now known as the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS), is a relatively unchanged survivor of the first years of railroad... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Standard Mine, Timber Trestle, Gilson Gulch, Standardville, Carbon County, UT

Standard Mine, Timber Trestle, Gilson Gulch, Standardville, Carbon Cou...

Significance: The timber trestle is associated with events that have made significant contributions to the broad patterns of our history, i.e., early 20th century coal mining in Utah and the western United Stat... More

Marquette Ore Dock No. 6, Timber Trestle, Between East Lake Street & Ore Dock No. 6, Marquette, Marquette County, MI

Marquette Ore Dock No. 6, Timber Trestle, Between East Lake Street & O...

Significance: The timber trestle is an excellent example of mid-twentieth timber construction. This type of construction was common before the use of steel. The original plans called for the entire approach t... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle, 685 feet South of Bridge Street & Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle,...

Significance: The coal trestle of the D,L & W's Scranton yards supplied coal and sand to all locomotives working on the Scranton mainline. It represents the railroad's commitment to efficient and economical ma... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Frankenstein trestle 80 feet high, 500 long.

Frankenstein trestle 80 feet high, 500 long.

Photograph shows railroad train moving upwards on trestle. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, water way, maritime architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Steel production. Driving hard for iron production. There's plenty of activity in the row of boiler house stacks, in the roaring blast furnaces and the steel trestle that serves them. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Driving hard for iron production. There's plenty of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Utah Copper: Bingham Mine. A section of trestle of the Carr Fork bridge at the Bingham Canyon workings of the Utah Copper Company

Utah Copper: Bingham Mine. A section of trestle of the Carr Fork bridg...

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790B, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Creek, south of Buckwalter Road, Pickering, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Cre...

Significance: The trestle is significant as a high trestle with both horizontal and vertical curvature. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N596 Survey number: HAER PA-521 Building/str... More

Mahoning Creek Trestle, Spanning Mahoning Creek, 1 mile West of Goodville, Blairsville, Indiana County, PA

Mahoning Creek Trestle, Spanning Mahoning Creek, 1 mile West of Goodvi...

Significance: The Mahoning Creek Trestle is the largest structure of its type in Indiana County and played a large part in the county's transportation history. Survey number: HAER PA-266 Building/structure da... More

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, Crossing Wolf Creek at Milepost 339.78, Chama, Rio Arriba County, NM

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, ...

Significance: The San Juan Extension (SJE) of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG), now known as the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS), is a relatively unchanged survivor of the first years of railroad... More

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, Elk Creek Trestle, Spanning Elk Creek, south of Elk Park Road, Lake City, Erie County, PA

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, Elk Creek Trestle, Spanning El...

Significance: The crossing is an excellent example of the long trestles required to cross northwestern Pennsylvania's irregular topography. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N607 Surv... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 791B, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 791B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

[Dam and railroad trestle, Ann Arbor, Mich.]

[Dam and railroad trestle, Ann Arbor, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Petersburg, Virginia (vicinity). South Side Railroad trestle (west of Petersburg) across Indian Town creek

Petersburg, Virginia (vicinity). South Side Railroad trestle (west of ...

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Uintah Railway, Whiskey Creek Trestle, Baxter Pass Road & Whiskey Creek Road, Rangely, Rio Blanco County, CO

Uintah Railway, Whiskey Creek Trestle, Baxter Pass Road & Whiskey Cree...

Significance: It is the last remaining bridge along the abandoned Uintah Railway in Colorado. The Uintah Railway was built during 1905-1906 to haul gilsonite from Dragon, Utah to Mack, Colorado. This was a narr... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Mahoning Creek Trestle, Spanning Mahoning Creek, 1 mile West of Goodville, Blairsville, Indiana County, PA

Mahoning Creek Trestle, Spanning Mahoning Creek, 1 mile West of Goodvi...

Significance: The Mahoning Creek Trestle is the largest structure of its type in Indiana County and played a large part in the county's transportation history. Survey number: HAER PA-266 Building/structure da... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, north of Paradise Street, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, no...

Significance: With its sixteen plate-girder spans of various ages, is an excellent example of American railroads' practice of recycling main-line structures into branches and sidings. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, Crossing Wolf Creek at Milepost 339.78, Chama, Rio Arriba County, NM

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, ...

Significance: The San Juan Extension (SJE) of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG), now known as the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS), is a relatively unchanged survivor of the first years of railroad... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Trestle work (no. 2,) on City Point & Army R. R.

Trestle work (no. 2,) on City Point & Army R. R.

Photograph shows cut logs used in construction of a trestle bridge.

Mine trestle, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Mine trestle, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Logging in Cascade Mtns.: piles 132 feet long used in the trestle - height 107 feet to top of rails

Logging in Cascade Mtns.: piles 132 feet long used in the trestle - he...

J252602 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Darius Kinsey, Seattle. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Trestles; Lumbering Wash.; Shelf.

Ben Bow chromite mine, Stillwater County, Montana. Trestle for the ore cars

Ben Bow chromite mine, Stillwater County, Montana. Trestle for the ore...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Y Trestle, South side of Monongahela River between Thirty-fourth & Twenty-ninth Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Y Trestle, South side of Mono...

Significance: Permitted access between the Monongahela Connecting Railroad and former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. P&LE was a major hauler of raw materials into and semi-finished steel products from form... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Secrettown Trestle from the west. Length 1,100 feet

Secrettown Trestle from the west. Length 1,100 feet

No. 48. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, California. Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Creek, south of Buckwalter Road, Pickering, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Cre...

Significance: The trestle is significant as a high trestle with both horizontal and vertical curvature. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N596 Survey number: HAER PA-521 Building/str... More

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, Crossing Wolf Creek at Milepost 339.78, Chama, Rio Arriba County, NM

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, ...

Significance: The San Juan Extension (SJE) of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG), now known as the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS), is a relatively unchanged survivor of the first years of railroad... More

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, Elk Creek Trestle, Spanning Elk Creek, south of Elk Park Road, Lake City, Erie County, PA

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, Elk Creek Trestle, Spanning El...

Significance: The crossing is an excellent example of the long trestles required to cross northwestern Pennsylvania's irregular topography. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N607 Surv... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Railroad trestle. Ontonagon County, Michigan

Railroad trestle. Ontonagon County, Michigan

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Trestle in Clipper Ravine, near Clipper Gap

Trestle in Clipper Ravine, near Clipper Gap

No. 29. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, California. Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Standard Mine, Timber Trestle, Gilson Gulch, Standardville, Carbon County, UT

Standard Mine, Timber Trestle, Gilson Gulch, Standardville, Carbon Cou...

Significance: The timber trestle is associated with events that have made significant contributions to the broad patterns of our history, i.e., early 20th century coal mining in Utah and the western United Stat... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle, 685 feet South of Bridge Street & Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle,...

Significance: The coal trestle of the D,L & W's Scranton yards supplied coal and sand to all locomotives working on the Scranton mainline. It represents the railroad's commitment to efficient and economical ma... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

Utah Copper: Bingham Mine. A section of trestle of the Carr Fork bridge at the Bingham Canyon workings of the Utah Copper Company

Utah Copper: Bingham Mine. A section of trestle of the Carr Fork bridg...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Utah Copper: Bingham Mine. A section of trestle of the Carr Fork bridge at the Bingham Canyon workings of Utah Copper Company

Utah Copper: Bingham Mine. A section of trestle of the Carr Fork bridg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Y Trestle, South side of Monongahela River between Thirty-fourth & Twenty-ninth Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Y Trestle, South side of Mono...

Significance: Permitted access between the Monongahela Connecting Railroad and former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. P&LE was a major hauler of raw materials into and semi-finished steel products from form... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Creek, south of Buckwalter Road, Pickering, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Cre...

Significance: The trestle is significant as a high trestle with both horizontal and vertical curvature. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N596 Survey number: HAER PA-521 Building/str... More

Oregon Electric Railroad, Cattle Pass Trestle, Garden Home to Wilsonville Segment, Milepost 41.2, Wilsonville, Clackamas County, OR

Oregon Electric Railroad, Cattle Pass Trestle, Garden Home to Wilsonvi...

Survey number: HAER OR-113-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oregon Electric Railroad, Hedges Creek Trestle, Garden Home to Wilsonville Segment, Milepost 38.7, Garden Home, Washington County, OR

Oregon Electric Railroad, Hedges Creek Trestle, Garden Home to Wilsonv...

Survey number: HAER OR-113-D Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oregon Electric Railroad, Hedges Creek Trestle, Garden Home to Wilsonville Segment, Milepost 37.8, Garden Home, Washington County, OR

Oregon Electric Railroad, Hedges Creek Trestle, Garden Home to Wilsonv...

Survey number: HAER OR-113-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle, 685 feet South of Bridge Street & Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle,...

Significance: The coal trestle of the D,L & W's Scranton yards supplied coal and sand to all locomotives working on the Scranton mainline. It represents the railroad's commitment to efficient and economical ma... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Linn Crossing Trestle Bridge, Spanning County Road 71, Linn Crossing, Jefferson County, AL

Linn Crossing Trestle Bridge, Spanning County Road 71, Linn Crossing, ...

Significance: Approximately 15 to 20 frame residences remain today, along with the wooden trestle bridge that still carries coal trains from nearby Jim Walter Nebo and Chetopa mines over the former Southern Rai... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Creek, south of Buckwalter Road, Pickering, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Cre...

Significance: The trestle is significant as a high trestle with both horizontal and vertical curvature. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N596 Survey number: HAER PA-521 Building/str... More

Mahoning Creek Trestle, Spanning Mahoning Creek, 1 mile West of Goodville, Blairsville, Indiana County, PA

Mahoning Creek Trestle, Spanning Mahoning Creek, 1 mile West of Goodvi...

Significance: The Mahoning Creek Trestle is the largest structure of its type in Indiana County and played a large part in the county's transportation history. Survey number: HAER PA-266 Building/structure da... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, north of Paradise Street, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, no...

Significance: With its sixteen plate-girder spans of various ages, is an excellent example of American railroads' practice of recycling main-line structures into branches and sidings. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Trestle bridge across Bull Run, after the freshet of 1863

Trestle bridge across Bull Run, after the freshet of 1863

No. 44 (handwritten) and 2545 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT

Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great ...

Significance: The Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off, built 1902-1904 by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Great Salt Lake, is possibly the most noteworthy achievement of bridge and fill work in the United States. Will... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile southwest of junction of State Highway 83 and Blue Creek, Corinne, Box Elder County, UT

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, S.P. Trestle 779.91, One mile sout...

Significance: After its completion in 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad Line required continuous repair and rebuilding. The Southern Pacific Railroad Trestle #1, located on the Engineer Mountain grade west of... More

[Train on the] highest single piling trestle in the world

[Train on the] highest single piling trestle in the world

J183812 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RR Bridges.

Bingham Canyon, Utah. Building a trestle bridge at the open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company

Bingham Canyon, Utah. Building a trestle bridge at the open-pit mine o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Train pulling out of a freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. The wooden trestle is part of a long chain belt used to carry blocks of ice from the ice house to the freight house

Chicago, Illinois. Train pulling out of a freight house at a Chicago a...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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