Identifier: railwaylocomotiv24newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Mil-waukee & St. Paul, and the Chicago,Milwaukee & Puget Sound RailwaysThe railroads are 3.277 miles in length, pian and the Columbian. They areSteel constructed trains from end toend, and are the first complete steeltrains to be operated between Chicagoand Puget Sound. The accompanying illustration showsthe superb steel bridge which crossesthe Missouri River at Mobridge, ninety-eight miles west of Aberdeen, S. Dak.This is the point where the two divi-sions of the great railway meet. Thebridge is one of the most notable struc- fertile country, rich in natural products,has been marked by a growth in citiesand towns that is without a parallel inrapid progress in the newly opened re-gions of the Northwest, and bids fairin a few years to rival the clustered in-dustrial centers of the East. The pres-ent year has in many respects been themost remarkable in this rapid growth,owing largely to the magnificent andvast areas that have blossomed intowheat fields and which a few years ago
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STEEI. BRIDGE, MISSOURI RIVER. MORRIDGE, S. D. and they hold the record in railroadconstruction, the building of these greatroads only occupying a little less thanthree years. With the numerousbranches already in operation, thetracks extend to nearly 9,000 miles.There are nearly 3,000 locomotives inoperation, and the general equipment isof the best. The daily special trains thatwe refer to are known as the Olvm- tures of its kind in the world. Thereare three towering spans, each 425 ft.in length, rising to a height of 65 ft.above the rails, and four massive piersof solid masonry, that raise the super-structure 55 ft. above the river. Thebridge is the heaviest that has yet beenconstructed across the Missouri River. As may be expected, the opening ofthis fine railway through a beautiful and were vast treeless wildernesses, but arenow teeming with life and energy. Aparticularly pleasant feature is the num-ber and, what may be called, rural ele-gance of the tree-embowered home-steads that

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