Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-12-08 | Page 6 | Rail Crews Tunnel through Mountain

Rail Crews news Tunnel Through Mountain ASPEN Wyo Dec 8 INS INS INS- Union Pacific railroad engineers announced a through break-through was made Tuesday by two boring crews in fn a R. new foot tunnel Under the Ule Uintah m mountains The through break is said to have hav been right on the button and Mci occurred feet from the I east portal The groups working I from either cither side of the mountain spur reportedly erred at most no nomore nomore more moro than a fraction of an inch ii The new t tun tunnel u n n e I which runs parallel to the present Aspen tunnel is expected to be completed next summer It will eliminate the only stretch of ot single single single sin sin- gle track between Omaha and Salt Lake City