The Cap-Rouge trestle, or Tracel de Cap-Rouge, is a railway trestle bridge inaugurated in 1908 and still in use in Cap-Rouge, in the vicinity of Quebec City. It was commissioned in 1906 as a section of the National Transcontinental Railway to connect — over the valley of the Cap-Rouge river — the eastbound railway with the newly built and nearby Quebec Bridge. It was built as a steel structure with the Dominion Bridge Company in charge. The total cost was 800 000 Canadian dollars.
At 173 feet , it is one of the highest structure on which trains are operated in the province of Quebec and as such, has become over the years an attractive location for trespassers. As a response, its points of access have been fenced and a video surveillance system installed. Nowadays, it is only used by freight trains, at the relatively slow speed of approximately 12 miles per hour .
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