Aban/CR&NW Gilahina Trestle over Gilahina River kinda near McCarthy, AK

(Neither Bridge Hunter nor Historic Bridges does Alaska; Satellite)

CR&NW = Copper River & Northwestern Railway. It operated from 1911 to 1938 to serve the Kennecott mines.

Street View, Aug 2009

Craig Kent posted
Copper River & Northwestern Railroad trestle west of McCarthy, AK August 2021.

Mark Cosson: Gilihina Bridge. Built in 8 days when the temperature was 40 degrees below zero!

Craig Kent: Mark Cosson Yep https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gilahina-trestle

Kyle James Jarvis: Mark Cosson The first version burned in the summer of 1915. The current structure was built then.

Thomas Beiswenger: 880 feet [268m] long and there's a half million board feet in it.

Ken Heitzenrater shared

Craig Kent commented on his post
This is the west end of the trestle. The original post image is the east end.

Nathan Taylor, May 2021

Steve Schmorleitz uploaded four photos in Google Maps in May 2014.

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The temperatures got as low as -67 F, and the trestle is 90' (27m) high.
[I'm trying to remember at what temperature spit freezes before it hits the ground. I think -67 F might be colder than that.]

 

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The abandoned railroad is probably the dotted line on this map.

1951 McCarthy Quad @ 250,000