Kinsol Trestle

This evening I drove along Riverside Road to the Kinsol Trestle for my blipfoto. The black section at the bottom of the trestle is where the trestle crosses the Koksilah River.

The Kinsol Trestle, also known as the Koksilah River Trestle, is a wooden railway trestle located on Vancouver Island north of Shawnigan Lake in the Canadian Province of British Columbia. It provides a spectacular crossing of the Koksilah River.

Completed in 1920, its dimensions measure 44 m (144 ft) high and 188 m (617 ft) long, making it the largest wooden trestle in the Commonwealth and one of the highest railway trestles in the world.

It was built as part of a plan to connect Victoria to Nootka Sound, passing through Cowichan Lake and Port Alberni, when forestry had gained some ground on Vancouver Island and a more efficient way to transport the region's huge, old-growth timber was needed.

It was not built, as some mistakenly believe, to serve nearby mines. It was named after the Kinsol Station which, in turn, took its name from a nearby mine named "King Solomon Mines", a very small mining venture, 1904-1907. Wikipedia