. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . in, straightacross Great Salt Lake and across thedesert which formed the bed of LakeBonneville in geologic times. This line is103 miles long. Twenty-seven and a halfmiles is over the lake, and of this distancesixteen miles is on an earth embankmentand the rest is on trestle. The number ofcurves eliminated by the new line would Concrete and Glass Telegraph Poles,experiments have been madein America with the ,.. oj concrete and iron for telegraph poles, butthe poles so 1 bi n altogether satisfa
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . in, straightacross Great Salt Lake and across thedesert which formed the bed of LakeBonneville in geologic times. This line is103 miles long. Twenty-seven and a halfmiles is over the lake, and of this distancesixteen miles is on an earth embankmentand the rest is on trestle. The number ofcurves eliminated by the new line would Concrete and Glass Telegraph Poles,experiments have been madein America with the ,.. oj concrete and iron for telegraph poles, butthe poles so 1 bi n altogether satisfactory. The growing expense of I timber for telegraph poles will keep stimulating the companies until they findgood substitutes. We notice that the in-ventors in other countries are trying tofind a substitute for wooden poles andtheir efforts will be watched with patent has been granted in Germanyfor an invention for the manufacture ofglass telegraph and telephone poles. Acompany has been organized, and a fac-tory for the manufacturing of glass poleshas been built at Gross-Almerode, near. DEVILS GATE, WEBERS CANYON, UNION PACIFIC. turn a train eleven times around. Thedifference in the grades on the cut offand those of the old line are verymarked. The old line had several longgrades , , and up PromontoryMountain per cent, as against amaximum of only per cent, for veryshort distances on the Cut-Off. The march of progress is seen every-where on this line. In the fifties it tookthe Overland Mail stage coach 23 days21 hours to travel from St. Louis to SanFrancisco. In the sixties The Pony Ex-press was nine days making the tripfrom St. Joseph, Mo., to San the Overland Limited goes fromCouncil Bluffs to the Pacific in less thanthree days over a block signaled roadthrough the wonders of Echo canyon,over the famous Salt Lake, the desert,past the high Sierras, through thePalisades into California and on to thetide waters of the great Pacific. F
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