Show CUTOFF COST URGE LARGE SUM Union Pacific Reduces Main Line Mileage and Avoids a Heavy Grade t I Omaha May a 16 The Union Pacific railway reduced its main line mileage nine miles at midnight when it opened the tie Lane cutoff between Omaha and Lane Neb eb a distance of at eleven and one 0 half hall miles This short stretch of or track I has hall beer been one of the most expensive ever built bulit costing over it has a dou double I Ible ble bie track and will aside from reducing the mileage enable the road to cut out entirely one of ot the most moat mo t troublesome stretches of ot track on its entire system s stem When the Union with Ith govern I m mast nt aid ald sought a line Une out of ot Omaha It followed the valleys alleys in order to avoid the serious grades and cuts incident to a di dl direct reet line between Omaha and the Platte valley alle This line has been used ever since or for over forty fort years ears In the general improvement campaign upon the Union Pacific lines it was determined to cut straight across the Horseshoe the semicircle of ot which travel traven traversed sea ed nearly miles Just after atter leaving Omaha The new route furnishes an air airline line di dl directly directly west from front Omaha cutting off orr nine miles of ot valley alle track and reducing the grade about CO ro per cent |