The bridge was last used in 1976, but it still has rails on it. Evidently wood does alright in a desert.
Bridge Hunter has street views taken by a hiker going across the bridge.
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| Jonathan Haeber Flickr via Bridge Hunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) The tallest curved trestle in the U.S. dates to 1932, when an earthquake collapsed an adjoining tunnel. The trestle was the only other option for crossing Goat Canyon. The trestle stands 200 feet tall and 600 feet long. |
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| Eric Polk posted The Goat Canyon Trestle in eastern San Diego County is the world's largest wooden trestle. It was built in 1933 after a tunnel collapse led to a realignment of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway. By the 1930s, metal and concrete were the preferred construction materials for railroad bridges. Wood was chosen for this bridge due to the extreme temperature fluctuations found in the Colorado Desert. The railroad no longer runs on this trestle and it can be visited by day hikers. |
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| Forgotten posted 16 mile hike to an abandoned Train track bridge in California, USA Carter Neusbaum: This is Goat Canyon Trestle, it is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wooden trestle. Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed. The railway had been called the "impossible railroad" upon its 1919 completion. It ran through Baja California and eastern San Diego County before ending in Imperial Valley. The trestle was made of wood, rather than metal, due to temperature fluctuations in the Carrizo Gorge. By 2008, railway traffic had stopped using the trestle. Warren Burkholder shared Sherry Bonneau posted Goat Canyon Trestle, aka the impossible railroad. They built this giant bridge after one of the tunnels collapsed. The railroad was suppose to connect Arizona to San Diego, built by a train car owner, the railroad never recouped its original investment but was operational as late as 2007. It has about 12 or more tunnels and a series of trestles all throughout a few miles of track. It's no longer in use, but I don't believe it's abandoned either. It's still maintained as a hiking trail.. It is plumbed with water pipes which doused the whole structure whenever steam locomotives crossed it...as otherwise it would catch fire and burn to the ground because steam locomotives threw alot of sparks. Credit: Steve P. Jolliffe Russell Courtenay shared |
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| Fernando Aragon commented on Sherry's post You should look into the trestle in Albuquerque. It's the largest all wood structure in the world. That's a bomber on top. They would turn the engines on and shoot EMPs at the plane. The wood was invisible to the EMP so it was a safe way simulate flight. [If someone he provided GPS coordinates, it would have gotten its own notes.] |
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| Ian Gove commented on Warren's share |
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| Photo taken by Mahat Tattva Dasa via Bridge Hunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
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| Trent Reeve posted Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest curved, all-wood trestle. Mark Harold Adams William Wilson Thanks for the heads-up |
(new window) In southern Anza Borrego Desert rests the largest freestanding wooden trestle in the entire world: the Goat Canyon Trestle. Built in 1932, this engineering marvel requires a 16+ mile round trip hike across (as of this writing) abandoned railroad tracks, through train tunnels, and over smaller wooden railroad trestles. By the time you see the trestle, it's clear why this railroad was deemed "the impossible railroad."
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