Photo #1 - Photo from Forest History Society

Gasman Coulee Bridge

Located about 3 miles west of Minot, North Dakota.

Bridge was built between 1886 and 1887.

Bridge was 1,609 feet long, 102 feet high, and contained over 1 million feet of timber.

Photo #2 - Photo from Bumgarner, Matthew C. Legacy of the Carolina & North-Western Railway (Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press, 1996) Page 20.

June 5, 1884
Lenoir, North Carolina

Crowd of approximately 5,000 people gathered in Lenoir to celebrate opening of railroad station.