This is the largest freestanding wooden train trestle in the world. It's been abandoned for almost 90 years

This is the largest freestanding wooden train trestle in the world. It's been abandoned for almost 90 years. No road reaches it. The railroad it was built for runs nowhere. And the man whose fortune created the whole impossible thing died seven years before this bridge even existed. The Goat Canyon Trestle is the most famous piece of the San Diego & Arizona Railway, the "Impossible Railroad" that John D. Spreckels personally bankrolled starting in 1906. Twelve years to build. A panic, a revolution, a world war, and roughly 18 million dollars, most of it Spreckels' own. Then 90 more years of the desert taking it back. And the bridge itself wasn't planned. It was a patch. A workaround for a tunnel that collapsed in an earthquake in 1932. The crown jewel of the Impossible Railroad is, literally, a repair. So my buddy Justin and I rode 17 miles into the Anza-Borrego desert to stand on it. This is what we found, and the full story of why it's even there, before the desert finishes what it started

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