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Show ande road is building unique viaduct jl one of its kind in the united states1 iOGRAPHS illuslraiing the necessity for, and the progress in, the construction of the Denver & Kio C'rande viaduct- uPPer picture shows how freight trains hold up traffic on OOOeet in Length A Will Cost Approxi- ftjatcly $150,000. I Denver ft Rio Grande Rail-ii,, Rail-ii,, company is building ono o 0IKODst unique viaducts in the j End on Fourth ponih street vnimEit is tbo only viaduct of thn Zm the world. It will Bs $150,000 when completed, -ZLaEi Peel, wLich is now on the ByjjgLtiiti the I'ity in time, il will tttyXto trarfi.- by November 2ft. Ciok?:. '!is;:I':i! engineer ' iKnr Rio Orande, is the man ' Km brain tbc plan tt evolved, Il Yf Cgreat viaduct will yfand for ul (Kp as ft monument to lii? iag ft retr uriiqin1, die new rd)Kwill be one nf the. lone-!, Ktible and handsomest in the 1 nlaWBut. The eastern approach tQfcr Third West street f?spifprfii,h begin r.enr Kighll g atW' entire length will . wies Concrete. "diCi sS jiproichcs are of reinforced QianJlBd ore 'nor.' than feet, BagjH. For the remain ler die -Lw viaduct extends over more jUSWf tallmn ! tracks, this part ri 0agggr l"'P-n in V. verv ry. ItfjaW i R'O '': rri r .'io railroad dis- :,?rArit vMn.-t will he nf reln-Bsstrrte reln-Bsstrrte with steel trim-at trim-at intervals by'enlnmns Wr but weigld Mia! may HL Ot top there will lie tw.i k Jft rwenty-piijht. feet wide, Mdltlcn there will two side- Mlrix feer ir widt;-" widt;-" BNltiOD of foot passenpers. Nltbf (wo approaches Wjf ith Ttah U il Elei tower will contain (Bwi nf W1 Bnd will he as j Mfliin:W'' concrete Bknpleted the viaduct w,U not M e most durable f.vcr YW itbi? country, but 'iB'J iv banrlsomeM. In eon jB1 th wrrk it rrtp h,-. said J Jr.vP0un(1 of material being Pttt ereat roadwav. v. it h the JKy the steel, whjeh gF3 h':,r j, Tjtah yEK.u fro"' ftl,;jrries near y Rw? ' r'' ' nu,n" ! 'JMj Improvement. l(BL V ' 1 mneh to :: the letures here irlE ' the. eniulit !'mi EA ail.'1 ir ,; 1 h WlhrtVt107? t:t1'''1 ; are . . . . - . ....,1 tween Fourth West and Seventh West streets. Yesterday, when a Tribune reporter re-porter visited the district, six wagons, one automobile) and a number of pedestrians pe-destrians were held up for at least fifteen fif-teen minutes by a freight train nt Fourth West, and later they were again held up for a considerable time at Sixth West. Aside from Hie inconvenience, incon-venience, the dancer of injury also is great, But this will all be eliminated when the great viaduct, is completed. The roundhouse, machine shops and repair shops of the Rio Grande aro in the immediate locality of the viaduct, as are other Jarpje industries, and the! completion of the structure will sim-pluj sim-pluj ami solve the traffic problem in the district. The completion of this great- work also will mean a business boom on the west side, as for years the growth Of that part of the city has been retarded by the difficulty and danger of goinc to and from it over the network of railroad tracks. There are at present more than sixty men nt work on the viaduct and it IS proceeding toward completion rapidly. C, S Lambie (x Oo. of Denver are the contractors and E. A. Pickard is the tiperintendont in charge of the work. |