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The Hewitt Avenue Trestle is a causeway carrying U.S. Route 2 from Everett to Lake Stevens.It crosses the Snohomish River, Ebey Island, and the Ebey Slough.The western end of the trestle is an interchange with Interstate 5, while the eastern end is an interchange with State Route 204 and 20th Street.
Within Washington, the highway travels on a 326-mile-long (525 km) route that connects the western and eastern regions of the state as a part of the state highway system and the National Highway System. US 2 forms parts of two National Scenic Byways, the Stevens Pass Greenway from Monroe to Cashmere and the Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway near ...
United States 3 September 1861: Sabotage by Confederate partisans during US Civil War. 17–20 killed, 100 injured Chunky Creek Bridge: near Hickory, Mississippi: United States 1863: Winter flood caused a debris build-up which shifted the bridge trestle. Train bridge: Wood River Junction, RI: United States 19 April 1873: Washaway [10] [11] 7 ...
U.S. Route 2 or U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway spanning 2,571 miles (4,138 km) across the northern continental United States. US 2 consists of two segments connected by various roadways in southern Canada .
The Cascade Tunnel refers to two railroad tunnels, its original tunnel and its replacement, in the northwest United States, east of the Seattle metropolitan area in the Cascade Range of Washington, at Stevens Pass. It is approximately 65 miles (105 km) east of Everett, with both portals adjacent to U.S. Route 2.
This is a list of trestle bridges. The United States once had many; now some survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). These include: in the United States. Arboretum Sewer Trestle (1910), Seattle, Washington, NRHP-listed [1]
On January 21, 1970, the USS Yancey, a United States Navy attack cargo ship carrying 250 people, [29] was at anchor near the bridge–tunnel. During a gale with winds gusting in excess of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h), the Yancey dragged its anchors and hit the bridge stern first, knocking out a 375-foot (114 m) segment of trestle. There were no ...
The Rouses Point Bridge carries U.S. Route 2 (US 2) across Lake Champlain at the point where the Richelieu River begins its trek north to the St. Lawrence Seaway. Also known as the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge, it connects Rouses Point, New York in the extreme northeast corner of New York to Alburgh, Vermont. It is the northernmost of ...