File:Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad May Creek trestle, 1897 (MOHAI 7139).jpg

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English: Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad May Creek trestle, 1897   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Dorsaz & Schwerin
Title
English: Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad May Creek trestle, 1897
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.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad Company; Trestles
Depicted place
English: May Creek (Wash.)
Date 1897
date QS:P571,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 1 photographic print : gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 19 cm (7.4 in); width: 23 cm (9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,19U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,23U174728
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
7139
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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