In the shadow of the Independent, the downtown Austin condo tower taller than any other residential structure west of the Mississippi, you’ll find an unlikely relic of an unrecognizable past — the Third Street Railroad Trestle, an overgrown piece of vestigial infrastructure removed from the current context of its urban surroundings by nearly a century. Built over Shoal Creek by the International-Great Northern Railroad in 1925, the wooden bridge is one of the last physical reminders of the rail lines that fueled . . .
