CN Rail Bridge

Construction Date:  1908

Origins:

• 1908 – Original G.P.P. Bridge
• 1918 – 1923 – Much of the original trestlewas  filled in
• 1924 –  Exposed wood trestles replaced with iron, with only minor interruptions to service
• 2008 Extensive repairs

Features:

• Grand Trunk Pacific
• Note from “The Story of Rivers p 50:
• In 1915, a railway engineer died when his freight train crashed at the 115-foot-high Minnewaska Bridge recently removed by a cyclone
• Big Fill started in 1923 over what was then the longest trestle bridge in Western Canada