KVR Trestle 18

This is the first of 18 trestles that once spanned Myra Canyon.

Once concrete foundations were completed, the wooden trestles were built in roughly one week. Imagine 100 carpenters in Beaverdell, 60 kilometers away, carefully crafting each trestle from measurements taken at the site. The vertical supports, or bents, stood 15 feet apart, like wooden soldiers ready to hold the weight of steel and timber.

Once built, the trestles were disassembled, shipped by rail, and reassembled high above the canyon floor.

Decades later, the Myra Canyon Trestle Restoration Society returned to the canyon—but unaware of the original numbering, they reversed the order, giving the trestles a new story to tell.