File:Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad May Creek trestle, 1897 (MOHAI 7139).jpg
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editEnglish: Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad May Creek trestle, 1897 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Dorsaz & Schwerin |
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Title |
English: Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad May Creek trestle, 1897 |
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Description |
English: In western Washington and other areas with plenty of timber railroad workers built wooden trestles to carry tracks across rivers and ravines. In 1877, the Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad built a tall wooden trestle across the deep canyon of May Creek, to get to the Newcastle coalfields. The line's successor, the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, replaced the trestle in 1897 when it changed from narrow to standard gauge track.
This 1897 photo shows the standard-gauge May Creek Trestle under construction. The older, narrow-gauge trestle (left) was said to be a record-breaking 130 feet high and 1,120 feet long.
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English: May Creek (Wash.) |
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Date |
1897 date QS:P571,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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English: 1 photographic print : gelatin, b&w |
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height: 19 cm (7.4 in); width: 23 cm (9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,19U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,23U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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