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A reassurance shield on the Hewitt Avenue Trestle, carrying US 2 over the Snohomish River between Everett and Ebey Island. US 2 is defined by the Washington State Legislature as SR 2, part of the Revised Code of Washington as §47.17.005. [3] Every year, WSDOT conducts a series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume.
The wooden trestle had deteriorated by the 1980s and necessitated a replacement. [6] The narrow lane configuration and lack of a shoulder caused drivers to have anxiety attacks and contributed to hazardous driving conditions. [7] A new 2.5-mile (4.0 km) eastbound trestle was built between 1991 [8] and 2001 for $100 million, using reinforced ...
State Route 204 (SR 204) is a short state highway in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It connects U.S. Route 2 (US 2) at the eastern end of the Hewitt Avenue Trestle to the city of Lake Stevens, terminating at a junction with SR 9. The highway runs for a total length of 2.4 miles (3.9 km) and passes through several suburban ...
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 tunnel was still plagued by snow slides in the area. On March 1, 1910, an avalanche at Wellington (renamed Tye after the disaster) near the west portal of the original 2.6 miles (4.2 km) Cascade Tunnel, killed 96 [7]-101 [8] people, the deadliest avalanche disaster in U.S. history. [9] This disaster prompted the construction of the current ...
The original crossing was a three-span Howe truss bridge with wooden trestle approaches, constructed as part of the first transcontinental railroad. [2] The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad was subsequently constructed under the bridge between 1875 and 1876. [3] The trestle portions of the bridge were replaced with embankments by this time. [4]
Map of rail lines around Essex, Hudson, and Union counties in New Jersey. The grey CNJ line from Bayonne to Elizabeth was carried by the CNJ's Newark Bay Bridge. The Newark Bay Bridge of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) was a railroad bridge in New Jersey that connected Elizabethport and Bayonne at the southern end of Newark Bay.
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 ...