Show TRAINS WILL RUN THROUGH JORDAN NARROWS AT AI RATE OF A MILE A MINUTE Rio Grandes Grande's Extensive Improvements to Make a Remarkable Change in the Character of the tIle Roadbed The Tho extensive Improvements on the I Hlo Grande Gi Western line lino through the Jordan Narrows twenty miles south of at f Bait Lake which are arc being made at an estimated cost of or are fast last nearIng nearing near near- i ing completion r The Tho workmen with the tho most modern mod mod- cm ern rn railroad construction machinery have accomplished a LL trem tremendous amount of oC work In Sn a LL comparatively short chort time and within another month what was former formerly a LL winding track along the tho Jordan river which fated slow speed peed will have been transformed trans trans- formed Into Suto one of oC the safest and best sections on the entire line making It IL possible to run a mile mila a LL minute through the narrows thereby materially reducIng reducIng ing the time between Salt saIL all Lake LIk and f Pro Prove Effect of at the Improvements The primary object of or tho the Improve improve- ments as In Sn all nil modern railroading was vos to 10 eliminate curves and grades How flow well the company has succeeded In Sn this Is evident to the passenger r who Irvin from his car window can see sec the la landmarks landmarks land land- d- d marks of or th the former ormer track fim high on the hill hili sides Hides then later following the bend of oC the lie river below All U of oC these antiquities have been done one awa away avay with but at an enormous expense The rhe course of oC the Jordan has been changed l twice and the stream turned Into a new channel to avoid the building of oC bridges The fills lills made necessary ciSar essary enary by this are with concrete concrete concrete con con- crete walls The big mesa cu cut t Cull fully a 0 mile half long Ions and anti In places feet deep Is a prominent feature of or the works and Is It Itself elt a remarkable piece picco of oC railroad construction Service Not Interrupted It Is an Interesting nl fact that while the level Jevel of oC till tills this cut has been gradually lowered at least a dozen trains have e passed through It dall dally daily without Interruption Inter Inter- This was is accomplished h by laying a n. temporary track on one side of ot the excavation while the other was being lowered l Then when a certain depth had been reAch reached the track would lH be changed and powerful Bucyrus shovels put to work or on the elevated l por por- tion Perhaps the most Interesting part of oC all Is the Ule method of or unloading the cars after the shovels have filled them A string of oC cars heavily loa loaded ed j Is pulled out on a LL temporary track laid on the grade grado that Is to b be he raised tho the sides Bides of oC the cars care attached d with hinges are dropped then lien the massive plough known na os the th L Ledgewood Is I pulled b by a strong wire coil coll through the middle of oC the string of cars throwing the tle dirt off orr on both sides Twenty cars cal ma may be unloaded b by this process In forty for for- forty I ty minutes I |