A sepia-toned, arched-top photograph captures a wooden railroad trestle bridge spanning a rocky, dry ravine. The bridge is constructed of a complex network of vertical and diagonal timber beams supporting a flat track bed that runs horizontally across the frame. In the lower left foreground, five people in 19th-century clothing sit or stand among large, scattered light-colored boulders at the base of the bridge. The hillside behind the trestle is steep and covered in dense, low-growing brush and small trees, extending to the top of the frame. On the far left, outside the arched border of the photograph, a vertical "KODAK GRAY SCALE" and a "TIFFEN" color control patch are visible against a black background.
