Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-12-30 | Page 11 | Delay on the Cut-Off

DELAY ON THE CUTOFF i Track Settles and Must Be Repaired Re-paired The opening of the Lucln cutoff has been postponed because of the settling of tho track which Is usual in all railroad I rail-road building but which Is always more marked in trestle work than on land Piledrlvers are nt work bracing and strengthening the treetle and everything ev-erything possible IH I being clone to obtain ob-tain a solid foundation before the passenger pas-senger traffic Is sent across the lake New rails are to bo laid on the main I line soon as those now in position are In very bad shape many of them broken bro-ken and warped A man on a velocipede veloci-pede follows each train to look out for brcaksi caused by ito passage There have been several minor wrecks of freightcars lately from the broken rails over which the locomotive and first three or four cars usually pass safely In one instance a few days ago an entire train passed over such a break without a Jar