Category: bridge

Haisla Bridge Replacement Project Girder Launching Ceremony

The Haisla Bridge Replacement Project, Girder Launching Ceremony, June 14. 2022. Pylons anchored deep into bedrock of the Kitimat River will soon be mounted with giant steel girders. The new bridge project is expected to be completed by spring, 2023, then the old bridge from 1953 with its familiar humming vibration on the old deck […]

The Kitimat branch line operating trestle bridges

The 38.5 mile (62 kilometre) Canadian National Railways branch line from Terrace to Kitimat is one of the last working rail lines in North America that still uses wooden trestle bridges. There are three large and three smaller trestles along the line, as well a large bridge built to cross the Skeena River at Terrace […]