Kate Shelley High Bridge

Oliver Hammond

For a long time, this 185' high, quarter mile long span was the highest railroad trestle in the world. It's named after Kate Shelley, a 17-year-old girl who in 1881 crawled across the wooden original during a storm to warn an approaching passenger train that another trestle downtrack had been washed out.

From today's outing with Luke and Lindsay.

UAE-visible copy

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