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🚂 The Goat Canyon Trestle, located in San Diego, California, is the longest wooden railroad bridge in the world. Built from redwood beams, this impressive bridge spans 185 meters and reaches a height of almost 57 meters. It is part of the stretch known as the Carrizo Gorge, a section of the railway route that received the nickname "the impossible railway" in 1919 due to the extreme technical and logistical difficulties involved in its construction. This emblematic bridge is a testimony to the engineering of the early 20th century that remains an architectural marvel today.
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Amazing how they built that without the modern technology of today. Dont think i would be standing inside. Lol
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Sojournersoul 1919? the "technology" was not ever so different from now.

The designers had to use logarithm tables and slide-rules for their calculations, and manual drawing-boards for the drawings, not computers; but the builders had big power-saws, cranes, etc. available. Plus considerable skill of course.