Coal Banks Trestle: Introduction

Coal Banks Trestle: Introduction

One of the modeling jewels along the GN line from Great Falls to Havre, MT is the trestle over the Coal Banks Coulee. This massive steel trestle was typical of the structures needed by railroad construction engineers to cross valleys (a.k.a. coulees) that cut across the otherwise unremarkable prairie from North Dakota to the Rockies. […]