Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-01-22 | Page 3 | Over-Sea Railroad Finally Finished

OVER SEA RAILROAD FIUJHHED KKY WEST, Fla.. Jan. IL When the cross-over span at Knights Key was closed il ls afternoon and the great concrete con-crete trestle Into Key West was tested, everything ws in readiness for ths celebration cele-bration of the over-sea extension of the ITtorlda Kast Coast railway hrre tomorrow. tomor-row. Among the warships here are a Portuguese Portu-guese cruiser and ihe Cuban flagship tfetner. The United States Is represented by the tilth division of lbs Atlantic squadron. assistant Secretary of War Oliver will represent President Tail and accompanying accompany-ing him will be a congressional delegation delega-tion of slxty-elghti The in hi through train from New York to Key West passed through Jacksonville this morning with a large passenger lit and will arrive III Key West tomorrow morning. folloved by ihe congressional special excursion trains. The over-sea road is one of the costliest cost-liest railroads ever constructed. O steps from key to key. far out in the gulf, at Bomi points being oul of Bite of land. Between the key are Iohr --i i -.t, hcs of concrete viaducts, steel and drawbridges. Work on the extension was b in from homestead In 1904. The iirt train on this lap was rim January 22, 1908. Pour Bfr;'r more -ears of strejiuous labor, n.aii' WS&Li. j difficult a;id delayed by storm wreckage, gg, ; I were required to complete the road to JSt, ' I Key West, a distance of only forty -six Mt,;. - miles from Knlgiits Key. iff )