Rumbling trains passed below as hundreds atop the Green Tree Bridge celebrated the opening of the nearly 600-foot cement marvel, which spans the BNSF railroad tracks in Victorville.

Residents joined city, local and regional leaders to celebrate the completion of the Green Tree Extension Project and Bridge, something Mayor Debra Jones called a partnership between agencies, which personifies a “collaboration spirit.”

Skanska, Parsons, and Dokken Engineering worked to extend Green Tree Boulevard 1.5 miles east from Hesperia Road over the tracks to Ridgecrest Road near Spring Valley Lake and Mojave Narrows Regional Park.