 This train ferry was shipped in more than 50,000 parts around Cape Horn and assembled in Portland.This Northern Pacific Railroad ferry was long and wide and continued in use from 1883 until around 1910 when a railroad bridge across the river was built.The Astoria–Megler Ferry operated at the mouth of the Columbia, between Megler, Washington and Astoria, Oregon, until the Astoria-Megler Bridge was built in the 1960s.