slgwv's photos with the keyword: trestle

The remains of the trestle that carried ore into the mill at Berlin, Nevada, from which point it moved thru the operation by gravity. There's even an old rusty ore cart on what's left of the tracks!

Red Mountain, Colorado (the name was not drawn from a hat!) Looking east. This was a bonanza-grade precious metal mining area from the late 1800s thru 1978. Presumably stricter environmental regs have forestalled new activity due to the run-up in gold prices the last few years. The trestle in the foreground comes out of the portal of the Idarado Mine, which was connected under the mountains to the west (that is, back under the camera position) to the workings out of Telluride. The insets have a couple of more detailed interpretive signs on the area. Off US 550, the "million dollar highway."

Mill, Berlin, Nevada, USA. Where the ore-laden carts would trundle into the top of the mill.

At sunset, looking downriver. Washington state, USA, on the Snake River, here a reservoir. The railroad line is the Burlington Northern/Santa Fe.

Snake River/Lake Herbert G. West reservoir, Washington state, USA. Sunrise the following morning! Still looking downriver, but now the sun is behind me. At the time this was a Washington state park, but (due to budget cuts) it's now administered by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that built the dam.

This trestle was originally entirely wood; then when the highway bridge was built, in the 1920s IIRC, that side was replaced with steel. Even after the railroad was abandoned and turned into the bike trail, half of the bridge remained the old wooden trestle. Then the wood part burned in a wildfire in 2000, and it hadn't been repaired in 2003 (at the time of this pic). It's since been rebuilt as all steel. This is on the Bizz Johnson trail in northern California, a hiking/biking/horse trail that follows the old Lassen & Fernley branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Susanville, California, to Westwood Junction, California. It's about 26 miles long, close enough to a marathon that marathons are run along it. Here's the Bureau of Land Management writeup: www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/eaglelake/bizztrail.html