The Fairview Lift Bridge is a railroad bridge spanning the Yellowstone River, and is the only lift bridge in North Dakota (although it does have a twin located nine miles north and crossing the Missouri River in Montana). Its complicated lifting mechanism was only used a single time, before the bridge was even technically complete. Named after the town of Fairview, Montana located five miles to the west, construction on the bridge and its twin, started in 1912 and was completed in the fall of 1913. Because the Yellowstone River…
