The CNR Bonnet Carré Spillway-Baton Rouge Bridge is a 1.3 mile (2,092 m or 6,864 ft) wooden
trestle bridge
A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames usually carrying a railroad line. A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a st ...
that carries a
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...
rail line over the
Bonnet Carré Spillway
The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a Flood#Flood defences, planning, and management, flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi River, Mississippi Valley. Located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, about west of New Orleans, it allows floodwat ...
in
St. Charles Parish. Its length once had it included on the list for
longest bridges in the world.
The bridge is owned and maintained by the Canadian National Railway corporation and is used by Canadian National Railway freight trains. It is currently being reconstructed as a concrete bridge
[https://www.hdrinc.com/portfolio/bonnet-carre-spillway-rail-bridge-reconstruction-environmental-services] to allow Amtrak to run a train between
Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
See also
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List of bridges in the United States
This is a list of the major current and former bridges in the United States. For a more expansive list, see List of bridges in the United States by state.
Major bridges
This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the road and railway bridges wit ...
References
External links
Canadian National Railway website
Railroad bridges in Louisiana
Canadian National Railway bridges in the United States
Transportation buildings and structures in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
Bridges completed in 1936
1936 establishments in Louisiana
Bonnet Carré Spillway
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