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One of the trestles built above Whitefish River.
It's a steel girder bridge supported by a couple of concrete piers and two steel trestles on concrete footings in the river. On the eastern footing the date, 1919, is stamped in the concrete face just below the rail bed.
This bridge was built by the Great Northern Railroad in 1919. Given that the Great Northern arrived in Whitefish in 1904, at which time it was made a divisional point, this bridge must be the second to be built over the river. The first was most likely a wooden trestle bridge.
This bridge became a Burlington Northern bridge when The Great Northern became the Burlington Northern on March 2, 1970, with the merger of four railroads, the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
It's a steel girder bridge supported by a couple of concrete piers and two steel trestles on concrete footings in the river. On the eastern footing the date, 1919, is stamped in the concrete face just below the rail bed.
This bridge was built by the Great Northern Railroad in 1919. Given that the Great Northern arrived in Whitefish in 1904, at which time it was made a divisional point, this bridge must be the second to be built over the river. The first was most likely a wooden trestle bridge.
This bridge became a Burlington Northern bridge when The Great Northern became the Burlington Northern on March 2, 1970, with the merger of four railroads, the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
Jul 24 2022