The Marent Gulch Trestle on the Northern Pacific Railroad – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The Marent Gulch Trestle on the Northern Pacific Railroad comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Marent Gulch Trestle on the Northern Pacific Railroad
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The Marent Gulch Trestle was a timber span on the Northern Pacific Railroad, shown in a wood engraving that appeared in Scientific American in 1883. Engravings like this carried news of western railroad works to readers in the East while the Northern Pacific was pushing its main line across the Rocky Mountains and the plains. Trestles let track cross deep ravines quickly, so they were a familiar feature of western lines during construction. The record comes from an old caption card and has not been fully verified, so the exact location of the gulch and the date of the structure remain uncertain.
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1883 |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Scientific American, v. 49, 1883, p. 399. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mont.--M- region; Trestles; Railroad bridges; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,405 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136742 |
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