High Bridge or what's left of it.

Someone asked me a questions.... so I answered. Jerry

 

Hi Jerry,
I am interested in local history, including railway history.  I've looked around to try to find the south abutment of the High Bridge without success. 

Does it still exist?  If so, where is it, please?  If not, where was it and the railed following from it?

Many thanks,
Michael Cain

 

I am standing on the south abutment to High Bridge in this 1968 photo of the Hinkle Express that,left Spokane around 11 am every morning until Amtrak took

over passenger service and this train was no more. It was a mixed collection of a coach, a baggage car and what freight had to get to Hinkle that early afternoon.

I would guess that this fill is still there and would get you to your south abutment.

 

A quarter mile past the first photo would be where the Union Pacific crossed I-90 and you can see the

shadow of the bridge still in place just past the road bridge around 1975.

 

This is how the Union Pacific got in and out of Spokane to the south and west. The Maple Street Bridge

is still there but homes, apartments and commercial structures are there now where railroads used to be.

High Bridge is to the left and downtown is to the right.

 

Grab shot as City of Hinkle (rail yard in Oregon) heads south. The abutments can still be seen

in the river west of the Centennial trail crossing.

 

Sometimes I could plan my day to be in the area to get a shot of a UP mixed freight.

Perhaps those buildings are still there to get you a sense where those abutments are located.

Bridge no more. It came down a few years later when BNSF Latah Bridge was the UP route in and

out of Spokane and Marshall Canyon. Just past Cheney it got on its own tracks towards the Snake River

and the famous town (yard) of Hinkle where it met UP's main line to Portland, Oregon.

I have thousands of photos on Cds of many railroads in the country if you need additional info.

Thanks for asking Jerry Quinn 509-939-5845