A Favorite place of mine...

This is a very famous place called the Keddie Wye. It is in the Sierra Nevada Mountains close to a small resort town called Keddie, named for a fellow called Arthur W. Keddie who conducted the first survey for the Western Pacific RR through the Feather River Canyon in 1867... ...I first saw this bridge/trestle in the fifties as I traveled on the real California Zephyr from Oakland, Ca to Chicago,Ill. The train traveled over the right hand (south)leg of the wye crossing Spanish Creek as it made it's way eastward through the mountains in the Feather River country... ...this bridge was the meeting point of east and west bound track gangs constructing the Western Pacific RR where the "Final Spike" was driven on November 1st, 1909... ...the RR is no longer known as the Western Pacific as it became swallowed up in one of many mergers of rail roads that have continually changed the face of railroading all through American history... ...the railroad through these mountains and this bridge are now owned by the largest railroad in America---the Union Pacific...