[1] The bridge location is at approximately mile 149 of Canadian National Railway's (CN) Wainwright subdivision.

[2] The steel trestle was designed by the Grand Trunk Pacific (GTP)[3] railway as part of the company's westward construction to Edmonton.

With the Battle River valley meandering west to east, a bridge had to be built in order to continue the westward trek, with its current location the most viable.

On 21 January 2012, at 16:17 MT,[2] 31 of a 137-car CN train going from Winnipeg to Edmonton derailed approximately halfway across the bridge.

[5] On 17 October 2017, at 17:40 MT, a westbound CN train consisting of 13 cars and one engine derailed when it approached the west end of the trestle.