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The Wilburton trestle in Bellevue, Washington , was built in 1904 as part of the Northern Pacific Railway's Lake Washington Belt Line, from Black River Junction (south of Seattle) to Woodinville. In 1974, the Lake Hills Connector was opened, and the two concrete-and-steel sections of the Wilburton Trestle added. It is the longest wooden trestle in the Pacific Northwest . It measures 102 feet in height and is 975 feet long. It carries a single track of the BNSF Railway line over Southeast 8th Street and is a landmark when traveling on Interstate 405 through Bellevue. Freight trains, from locals to trains carrying large and tall loads that will not fit in the tunnel under Seattle, still cross the bridge. It saw its last regularly scheduled passenger trains in July 1922. Several Casey Jones excursion trains crossed the trestle in the 1950s and 1960s. The trestle is one of the attractions of the Spirit Of Washington Dinner Train . It is also visible in the 1962 Seattle Elvis movie "It Happened at the World's Fair" before the road cut through the center section. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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