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Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company Tumalo Creek Trestle |
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Perhaps the scenic highlight on the logging railroad Brooks-Scanlon started building northwest from Bend towards Sisters in 1943 was the large curved timber trestle built to cross Shevlin Park and the Tumalo Creek canyon. The curved trestle measured out at approximately 700 feet long and stood about 60 feet high. The trestle carried Brooks-Scanlon log trains until early 1957, at which time a contractor removed the structure. In the early 1990s Walt Disney used several of the trestle footings to support a new covered bridge built as a prop for filming the movie Homeward Bound, the bridge remained in place and became an iconic landmark until its age and decrepit condition forced its demolition in 2019. City crews removed the remaining trestle footings at that time as part of a floodplain restoration project. The trestle site today is known as "Hixon Crossing" and can be reached by an easy two-thirds of a mile walk in from parking lots. A switchback trail leads up to the northern end of the trestle, where the City has erected an interpretive sign and a picnic table. |
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Brooks-Scanlon #6 leads a log train across the Tumalo Creek trestle. Jerry Lamper collection.
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Brooks-Scanlon #7 with another log train crossing the Tumalo Creek trestle. Jerry Lamper collection.
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One last shot of a log train on the Tumalo Creek trestle, this one in the diesel era behind the #102. Jerry Lamper collection.
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The interpretive sign the City of Bend has placed at the northern end of the trestle site.
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A closer shot of the upper part of the interpretive sign. The 1930 date on the sign for the trestle's construction conflicts with other available historic resources.
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A closer shot of the lower part of the sign.
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The view looking out across the Tumalo Creek canyon where the trestle once stood, it would have curved left from this vantage point.
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The grade heading north from the trestle site towards Sisters. A couple lengths of rail are still sitting next to the grade.
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Tumalo Creek from a trail bridge across the creek a short distance downstream from the trestle site, looking towards where it once stood.
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