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trestle bridges A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames. A trestle support, trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of ...
. The United States once had many; now some survive and are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
(NRHP). These include: ;in the United States *
Sulphur Trestle Fort Site The Sulphur Trestle Fort Site is a historic Civil War battle site near Elkmont, Alabama. The fort was the site of the Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle on September 25, 1864. After defeating Union Army forces and recapturing Athens, Alabama, Conf ...
, Elkmont, Alabama, NRHP-listed *
St. Francis River Bridge (Lake City, Arkansas) The St. Francis River Bridge, also known as the Lake City Bridge, was a historic bridge spanning the St. Francis River at Lake City, Arkansas. It was composed of 109 I-beam trestles and a single vertical lift span, and had a total length of . The ...
* West James Street Overpass (1924), Redfield, Arkansas *
Warrens Bridge The Warrens Bridge is a historic timber-trestle bridge carrying Phillips County Road 141 across the Lambrook Levee Ditch west of Lambrook, Arkansas. The bridge has seven spans with a total length of ; the longest span is . The bridge is wide, a ...
(c. 1930), Arkansas * Clio Trestle, California *
Dumbarton Rail Bridge The Dumbarton Rail Bridge lies just to the south of the Dumbarton road bridge. Built in 1910, the rail bridge was the first structure to span San Francisco Bay, shortening the rail route between Oakland and San Francisco by . The last freight tr ...
, California *
Richmond–San Rafael Bridge The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (also officially named the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of the San Francisco Bay in California, USA. Officially named after California State Senator John ...
, California *
San Mateo–Hayward Bridge The San Mateo–Hayward Bridge (commonly called the San Mateo Bridge) is a bridge crossing the American state of California's San Francisco Bay, linking the San Francisco Peninsula with the East Bay. The bridge's western end is in Foster City, ...
, California * San Luis Southern Railway Trestle, Blanca, Colorado, NRHP-listed *
D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle The D&RG Narrow Gauge Trestle, also known as the Cimarron Canyon trestle, is a narrow-gauge railroad deck truss bridge crossing the Cimarron River near Cimarron, Colorado. Located within the Curecanti National Recreation Area, the trestle is the ...
, Cimarron, Colorado, NRHP-listed * Doe Run Trestle, Springfield, Kentucky, NRHP-listed * Chacahoula Swamp Bridge (1995), Louisiana *
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (french: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the ...
, Louisiana *
CNR Bonnet Carré Spillway-McComb Bridge The CNR Bonnet Carré Spillway-McComb Bridge is a bridge that carries Canadian National Railway tracks over the Bonnet Carré Spillway and a portion of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Charles Parish and St. John the Baptist Parish. Its length makes ...
, Louisiana *
Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge The Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge, also known as the Gateway to the Gulf Expressway, is a concrete trestle toll bridge in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a total length of , it is one of the longest bridges in the world. The bridge carries Louis ...
, Louisiana * U.S. 61 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge, Louisiana * Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge, Antietam Creek, Maryland *
Verrazano Bridge (Maryland) The Verrazano Bridge in Maryland is a bridge on Maryland Route 611 over Sinepuxent Bay that connects Assateague Island to the mainland. The crossing, built in 1964, contains two spans, one carrying automobiles and the other carrying pedestrians a ...
* Minnesota and International Railway Trestle at Blackduck (1901-02), Minnesota * Adamson Bridge (1916), Cherry County, Nebraska, timber stringer trestle bridge built by the Canton Bridge Co. Formerly NRHP-listed. *
CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge The Newark Bay Bridge of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) was a railroad bridge in New Jersey that connected Elizabethport and Bayonne at the southern end of Newark Bay. Its third and final incarnation was a four-track vertical-lift ...
, New Jersey * Bridge A 249, New Mexico * Mexican Canyon Trestle, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, NRHP-listed * Wills Canyon Spur Trestle, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, NRHP-listed * Union Street Railroad Bridge and Trestle, near Salem, Oregon, NRHP-listed * Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, Delta, Pennsylvania, NRHP-listed * Southern Pacific Railroad: Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off Trestle, Ogden, Utah, NRHP-listed * Arboretum Sewer Trestle (1910), Seattle, Washington, NRHP-listed *
Wilburton Trestle The Wilburton Trestle is a historic wooden railway trestle in Bellevue, Washington. Measuring high and long, it is the longest wooden trestle in the Pacific Northwest. The trestle carried a single track of a former Northern Pacific branch line ...
(1904), Washington *
Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay between Delmarva and Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia. It opened in 19 ...
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Dale Creek Crossing The 650-foot (200 m) Dale Creek Crossing, completed in 1868 in the southeastern Wyoming Territory, presented engineers of the United States' first transcontinental railroad one of their most difficult challenges. Dale Creek Bridge, the long ...
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Fairfax Bridge (Washington) The Fairfax Bridge (formerly known as the O'Farrell Bridge) is a steel-lattice three-hinged arch bridge spanning the Carbon River on State Route 165 in Pierce County, Washington. Previous to the construction of the bridge in 1921, the only rout ...
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Genesee Arch Bridge The Genesee Arch Bridge (also known as the Portage Viaduct or Portage Bridge) is a steel arch railroad bridge over the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park, Livingston County, New York. It is the third bridge at this location: the original timbe ...
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Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel The Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel (HRBT) is a -long Hampton Roads crossing for Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 60. It is a four-lane facility comprising bridges, trestles, man-made islands, and tunnels under the main shipping channels for Hampton ...
* Hoover-Mason Trestle *
I-10 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge The I-10 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge is a twin concrete trestle bridge in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a total length of , it is one of the longest bridges in the world. The bridge carries Interstate 10 over the Bonnet Carré Spillway, L ...
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I-10 Twin Span Bridge The I-10 Twin Span Bridge, a nearly causeway officially known as the Frank Davis "Naturally N'Awlins" Memorial Bridge, consists of two parallel trestle bridges. These parallel bridges cross the eastern end of Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louis ...
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Kinzua Bridge The Kinzua Bridge or the Kinzua Viaduct (, ) was a railroad trestle that spanned Kinzua Creek in McKean County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The bridge was tall and long. Most of its structure collapsed during a tornado in July 2003. Bi ...
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LaBranche Wetlands Bridge The LaBranche Wetlands Bridge is a concrete trestle bridge in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a total length of , it is one of the longest bridges in the world. The bridge carries Interstate 310 over the LaBranche Wetlands in St. Charles Pa ...
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Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge The Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge (LLTB) is a 1.7 mile (2.7 km) tied arch bridge crossing Lewisville Lake in Denton County, Texas, USA. The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) worked cooperatively with Denton County to plan and design a toll ...
* Little Pipe Creek bridge and viaduct *
Lucin Cutoff The Lucin Cutoff is a railroad line in Utah, United States that runs from Ogden to its namesake in Lucin. The most prominent feature of the cutoff was a railroad trestle crossing the Great Salt Lake, which was in use from 1904 until the late ...
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Lyman Viaduct The Lyman Viaduct is a buried railroad trestle built over Dickinson Creek in Colchester, Connecticut in 1873. Along with the nearby Rapallo Viaduct, it is one of the few surviving wrought iron railroad trestles from the first generation of such str ...
* Magnolia Bridge *
Manchac Swamp Bridge The Manchac Swamp Bridge is a twin concrete trestle bridge near Manchac in the US state of Louisiana. With a total length of , it is one of the longest bridges in the world over water and is the longest bridge on the Interstate Highway System ...
* Maroon Creek Bridge *
Merrill P. Barber Bridge The Merrill P. Barber Bridge is a concrete arch bridge that spans the Indian River Intracoastal Waterway in Indian River County, Florida. The bridge was built by Odebrecht Contractors of Florida, Inc. and was completed in 1995. A fishing p ...
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Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel The Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel (MMMBT) is the 4.6 mile-long (7.4 km) Hampton Roads crossing for Interstate 664 in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States. It is a four-lane bridge–tunnel composed of bridge ...
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Moodna Viaduct The Moodna Viaduct is an iron railroad trestle spanning Moodna Creek and its valley at the north end of Schunemunk Mountain in Cornwall, New York, near the village of Salisbury Mills. Significance The bridge was constructed between 1906 and 19 ...
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Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge The Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge is a rolling lift trunnion bridge that carries a single-track of Norfolk Southern rail line over Lake Pontchartrain between Slidell and New Orleans, Louisiana, parallel to the Maestri Bridge At lon ...
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Old Youngs Bay Bridge The Old Youngs Bay Bridge is a bascule bridge across Youngs Bay in Astoria, Oregon, completed in 1921. Conde McCullough was responsible for designing this bridge, his first for Oregon. The bridge consists of two steel bascule leaves approached ...
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Peninsula Subdivision Trestle The Peninsula Subdivision Trestle is a railroad trestle in Richmond, Virginia on the Peninsula Subdivision of CSX Transportation. Details Starting in the north, the bridge begins to rise and cross East Marshall Street and East Broad Street ( U ...
* Pleasure Beach Bridge *
Porter Hollow Embankment and Culvert The Porter Hollow Embankment and Culvert, also known as the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Culvert, is a stone bridge and Trestle bridge, trestle over the Stegman Creek along the White Pine Trail State Park, White Pine Trail in Algoma Townsh ...
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Rapallo Viaduct The Rapallo Viaduct is a buried railroad trestle in East Hampton, Connecticut which carries the Air Line Trail across Flat Brook. The viaduct was built as part of the New Haven, Middletown and Willimantic Railroad's line from New Haven to Will ...
* Rivanna Subdivision Trestle *
Robert Moses Causeway The Robert Moses Causeway is an parkway in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island. The parkway, originally known as the Captree Causeway, connects West Islip on Long Island to the barrier beach islands, such as Captree Island, Jones Beach I ...
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Rock Island Railroad Bridge (Columbia River) The Rock Island Railroad Bridge is BNSF Railway's bridge across the Columbia River, at Rock Island, Washington. The structure consists of one through truss, one deck truss, and an approach trestle. History The bridge was originally built in 18 ...
* Rosendale Trestle * Safe Harbor Bridge * Salisbury Viaduct *
Santa Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge The Santa Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge in Highland Park, Los Angeles, is more than long and crosses the Arroyo Seco Parkway at an elevation of over . It is the tallest and longest railroad span in the city of Los Angeles, and most likely the o ...
* State Highway 274 Bridge * Susitna River Bridge * Transcontinental Railroad Grade * Trestles Bridge *
Triple Crossing Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia is one of two places in North America where three Class I railroads cross at different levels at the same spot, the other being Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City. At the lowest (ground) level, the original R ...
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Tulip Viaduct The Tulip Viaduct is a long railroad bridge (also known as the Greene County Viaduct or Tulip Trestle, and officially designated Bridge X76-6) in Greene County, Indiana, that spans Richland Creek between Solsberry and Tulip. According to Richa ...


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