Show l ls W N X 0 N IIII S 1 1 1 1 r 1 1 1 1 INI 1 IN III 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I 1 0 11 IN M 1 N IMN H 11 N 11 I 1 I N NI INI 1 1 i H 1 1 1 NH N I t N A 1 1 1 1 I I I 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 ti rn s 4 Ten Millions in Stupendous Engineering Feats 0 j i i 1 11 I 11 11 i I f in inand InAs over oer I of ot ur As Am improvements Is la IsI lagood and Inah a 11 ay good BOO showing on a u 1 ud y 1 d p I of or railway ralI This fact p u ll demonstrated to tit the theof t c cot II tn IJ t of ot 0 f n newspaper w r been going over oer the tho line lino linet bus P fl under tho rho solicit t t lit og General Passenger and 11 1 1 N N N 11 N III N N 1 11 N N S N N N N 1 I I between Ogden Oslen und and Omaha and by means menns of which which varying alln gradients of oC from to 1768 feet to tho the mile have been reduced to a maximum of ot 33 feet to 10 tho the mile mite And Ana the tho curves some somo of or which worn v oro as IS short ns hi 6 C degrees have 1110 boon Iwon opened to 4 degrees dej and ana easier while sonic Rome of at the worst o of them have entirely ly lust their places In n the tho line OLD WORK WORIC GOOD GOODIn In fairness to the engineers of the p X K X H 6 11 I I I 1 III I NI o I I I hh h h hI I I Grand Overland Route Spends That Amount in Implying its Grades and in Shortening its ils I r I J y Picturesque and Historic Country What a n Deseret News Man Saw on ony 2 t I y the Special Inspection Trip Given by the Union Pacific to Western Newspapermen X I I I I II 1111 K IN 1 1 r 1 b H t HH t t M H t M 41 M 11 Ui U M t t H t lit t M H m M M H H I HI t t M t H H f f fW f W V C i f fI I t i Y ry I I VI VII VIt VIi VIt VIt I I 5 t I I I R t h af aft i t t 1 t 1 t t tp t C vrn 11 Wr w wG G r I I I j I f 4 I I 1 I I 1 I c j I I WEST WE T ENTRANCE TO THE HE GREAT ASPEN TUNNEL t 4 F 1 H U rf U t M M 1 I t H f 4 H 1 1 U 44 U I T T Met lUtt Agent E L 1 Lomax of oC the Route Included In the tho thea a lp of ot that party was was a I of ot the News Newe and he be was much Interested In the tho stupendous dens of ot work ork which ore are being nc no and some of ot which have tag The bee W began on the tho Coos about years yeats ijo 10 tit I too k ledge of the country pos tf 1 tev 4 W r engineers woe was limited com coin COllitti Ith that which Is at their present time tine but thIs tact fact the tha line of at railway TO along the best route that tuc tl tn en found Some local faults J 2 rt egad curve details occurred and iff tr what have been and pre being heln twin together with the elimination of d o tap trades grades and long lonc detours by The Inspection of or this work has kept the newspaper ne mesa nJ of ot the Union Pacific busy bUBY and I Med and tilled Oiled w with Ith wonderment emir r a week pastle past The rhe News man obtained n a num W f of ot photographs two of which are ore traduced uC one of ot the mouth of or the tho rut fit Aspen Apen tunnel and the other of ot ofu u rt r of the big steam shovels which reproved Tt t such great grent factors In the tho sanu of ot mountains of ot earth In a piece of ot work that has short Md td the Overland Route Houte miles past post It ft should be bo stated slated that their work Is IB still a source source of ot wonder and ani astonishment to those who are familiar with railroad construction that with the limited resources of oC machinery and money mone at their control they the could have achieved such results In so short a lino CM at were shown In the building of oC The rhe Overland touted Haute However In order to correct the unavoidable errors In tho the earlier work and to facilitate the move movement movement ment of or the ponderous amount of radio carried over the line the work of oC today toda has been deemed necessary and ani advis advisable advisable able and It Is III with a 11 feeling that both the patrons arid the company will feel teel the tho great benefit of ot It that the this Union takes out of or Its treasury the sum of 10 and ond puts It Into these betterments SAVED NINETEEN MILKS MILES Tho The first three cutoffs authorized and built were those between Laramie and viz Bona Hona to Hosier Hosler Coopers Lake to Lookout Lookout to Medicine How This work Involved the construction of at about miles s sot of ot line and accomplished a n saving In distance of or practically nineteen miles The Tho Improvements consist In ht the tho reduction re reduction reduction In Grades from tram feet teet to feet teet per mile and an almost straight Instead of at a crooked line All 11 of or this was ht y work BONA DONA TO This l 1 Ii a n 1 cutoff of or 15 IG miltS miles reducing the tho distance wo three miles as ns compared with tho the old line having only one ono curve cUrO from one ono end to the tho other The re reo of at the grade em de to the standard of at 43 feet teet to the mile In both directions makes it possible to run trains at a abight high bight rate rata of oC speed with no discomfort to passengers coop ms LAKE LAYE TO LOOKOUT This Is S a cutoff of at four miles In dis distance distance tance and Is almost an airline To Ta show a n comparison the new line crosses the old one at seven seyen different places LOOKOUT TO MEDICINE MF now DOW With the same standards In mind an any other piece of line was built bum 20 26 miles Ions Toni saving a distance as OS compared with the old line of or 12 1 miles In re reducing r during duel lie the amount of at curvature to the tho minimum standard adopted by the com corn company compan int pan pany 1 It necessitated making makinI heavy hea out fills Y the one OM at Foot t Creek The Foot Creek nil fill as It Is known an embankment forty tort feet teet high and 2000 feet teet long was WM built by lIy the tho use of grading machines which plowed and loaded the dirt Into patent dump wagons Wa In which It was WR hauled and ana dumped Into the embankment Tho The equipment employed consisted of oC five graders and forty fort dump wagons The Tho material obtained from the borrow pits was a II sandy loam and tho the work lasted from May Mar to 1899 1599 This Thus piece of oC work has ben b Cn pronounced one of oC the tho best l i st constructed con large larRe rail railroad railroad railroad road embankments that has been built In recent years The material laving having been ben spread in thin layers laurs and rolled with the wheels of the tho wagons forms a II avery avery very cry linn firm embankment It may mo hero bo be e mentioned III en lion cd that the tho bases of many of or the larger embankments were built In this way Tho The cutH eulet and fills flits before specified were madu made amply wide culverts and bridges of or the post most Improved kind of at pipe masonry and an 1 steel were built the best of ot drainage being given to the road root In all nil respects HANNA JIANNA TO DANA The Tho building of at a new line lino II no a 1 distance of or about 8 miles made a n saving RavIng df of tour four miles using the old branch line from Allen to the new line extending ext from rein Hanna west Vest to tho the Junction at Dana with the old line This removed remove I a t Very 1111 ery crooked piece of rond rand with heavy grades smiles and crossed a spur of ot the th main mountain range ut tit a 11 lower elevation The cut at nt the th summit Is ii one and one on 1 r miles long and ami 05 G feet deep at nt atthe tIll the highest point passing through va a formations of oC coal Including an nit tight right foot toot seam Beam The other cuts puts and fills along this pipes pip of or line are ore of at hat less Ipsa mag maj magnitude magnitude than that just JuU described de but butare nr are very pry heavy work This new line Involved the tile moving of or Ull cubic of material of which nearly ruble cubit yards was cm nn mont and o cubic ruble yards solid rock Th s the eight miles of or ron rend l Hanna br t no nl averaged over Oer yards nor mile This was lonely cop cap cope capr r e In two t vo miles of oC work there being two Inn fills fill of cf f yards ea each h li Ing probably the tho lu yard ORf n rail ever wr handled handlo 1 for l rail 1011 Tip The large out Nt Just west weer of the Edson tunnel piece o of or very heavy l envy is 1 1000 feet enl cud SO 10 o feet teet Ie p pIt It eliminates three curves CUrell two bridges and reduces re curves CUres from five to three degrees ENTIRELY E CHANGED The line lino was changed entirely at ot the tho North Platte river crossing so as to take out curvature and reduce red c the tho grade grode To accomplish this It was wall w as ne necessary necessary to put In a n now steel bridge across the river von on concrete piers pers and abutments with pile foundations of or four spans of ot Deck Plate Plato Girder bridge feet long each and an additional deck derk girder span at nt each end of oC 35 feet teet In length built according to modern construction From Front Rawlins to Tipton is a distance of ot CO 60 O miles containing three summits and ana crossing the Continental Divide at nt Creston whore where the water of oC the Atlantic At Atlantic Atlantic lantic and Pacific separate The alti alii altitude altitude tude tUlle of ot this divide is la feet teel On this new line lino cuts cute and fills Oils arc are bring being made many heavy hea pipe and ad stone arches arch ere are bet bel Lav ii u ed where a e Or t le so no aa CUI ta to luve the em embankments embankments embankments solid and where not not possible possible ble be steel bridges and masonry masonry are used used QUEEN GREEN TO BRYAN BRYANA A new piece of or line wan waR built from Green River firer v n tIt tu to it a of at about eleven miles On this line lin westward for Cor a short distance from Green River ner to Peru the summit of or a mountain the tho Union Pacific has hns done Ilono donea a piece of or engineering of or stupendous magnitude ma After Arter leaving Green Oreen River Inver the Union Bluffs of oC Green River hirer almost precipitous precipitous precipitous tous cliffs are skirted The new line built right through high walls of ot rock carrying It a It little further away awa from the river straightening the road and curvature BO so that it Is well night Impossible to recognize the old line lineAs As Aa ono one looks up at the big cuts and fills he hc is filled with awe II 10 wonder and ond marvel not at nt the vast alit expense which must have hao been boen Incurred but at such ouch skill such a It masterpiece of or engineering u This line has hIlS no bridges on Its It I entire length every overy water course courso I being carried under the tho embankments by cast Iron pipes or stone arch cul cui culverts culverts verts erts BUFORD DUFORD TO 10 LARAMIE Over this same sarno region the tho Union Pa Pat has JuU Ju opened a II new line IIno piercing the same sasno mountains over which tho the Union Pacific trains have rove been climb climbing climbIng climbing ing since the tho road was first opened aliened Where heretofore such large lorge valleys as Texas Lone Ione Tree and Dale Dolo Creeks have been beeh bridged brid ed the company at nt largely increased expense has made mado solid solla embankments giving tho the greatest amount of ot safety nt nil all times tunes from wash or any allY other cause To secure a n low rate rato of oC grade and easy oa curvature cUr ture it was found necessary to put in a 0 tunnel through Sherman mil Hill through hard granite rock 1800 feet feel long of oC ample dimensions for Cor the tho largest lids n ds to pass through IMMENSITY OF WORK To 10 show tho the Immensity of the filling fining work worl let It be stated d that the tho crossing crossin of at Dale Creek Is 00 feet teet long feet reet high and that cubic yards of ot Sherman Shermon gravel was used In construct ing the tho embankment that tha t the crossing of oC Lone Tree Treo creek Is 18 about SOO feet teet long feet teet high and has cu en bic yards of or nil fill In the tho embankment This fill was wao mode made In a II novel wayby running small dump cars ears out on a sus suspension suspension pension bridge built over tho the canyon canon All 11 the embankment embankments ate are made mado of oC the tho Irk f N 11 I NI IN NIN II N 11 celebrated Sherman disintegrated granIte gran granite granIto ite Ito This new line over oer Sherman Hill crosses tho the at a summit which IK he feet teet lower than the old crossing thus staking making the highest elevation reached by tho the Union PacifIc just feet teet above bove sort sea level hovel Ie vol instead of ot feet teet us liS Tho The Immensely heavy henvy work In the construction of oC this tit Is lino line was wa finished In Ina ina a 11 very VCr short space of at time all nil of o it hav 1111 in ilK 1 Nl Nt S 1 HaI I tI I i I 1 l N n hw r Hr i lS I t J I f I 1 I I w 1 tit I 1 J r t J f fI i I IJ 1 A I t f i s g t ta tat y I t I fr I x xI xI J I I I C J I i iy uti I 1 y h r rt I IT T J Jt Jj t t J Jj j 1 1 T Y j J JT tI J J i y t J y r f ft 1 GREAT GREAr MOUNTAIN MOVING SHOVEL DROPPING ITS LOAD IN A CAR CARt i I t t MW III r rInA Ing InA been done within a n year ear This Thus was only made possible by b the we use of ot the most mORt Improved and newest kind of ot machinery of or ull all kinds requiring rC requiring ing In the tho use of oC a large largo number of ot steam locomotives for tor the this transportation of the tho material One Ono celebrated point of at rock roele on the edge of ot Dale Palo Creek Cicek Cone feet teet high above the grade line llna was wa drilled and loaded with about 1000 of black powder and a 1000 pounds of dy dynamite and on the Fourth of July Jul 1000 charge was wan net set off otto blow blowing hub ing cut the whole wh l of bf of the hill hili GRIM GREAT ASPEN CUTOFF Among tho the ninny many man improvements Improvement In course of or construction at present by h the tho Union Pacific the lire cutoff from rein Leroy to Bear Dear Hirer Wyo Wo Is 18 one ono of ot the first Importance and Imd avoids avoid a the celebrated Tapioca Hill lilli at best a n very piece of road to operate at all times of at atI I the year but particularly In hr winter Through this section the old line found Its way ay as best besl it could with many manya mall malla a sharp shari and anet dangerous curve and anti grades so 80 heavy hea that helping engines were required rC for tor all nil heavy trains In both boat directions Leaving Iero 1 eroy the tho now new line with graceful sweep follows from side elde to tide side Ide the historic Mormon Pioneer Valley lIlIe a 11 distance of ot 1145 miles to Aspen spen Tunnel This Iff lw the largest single piece of at work ever undertaken by the Union It pierces Aspen ridge one ono of ot the eastern foot toot hills bills of ot N N j It f f the range rallie and such when completed ed will be feet long lone Owing to the character of ot the material and an the presence of waist In large lare quantities the of this tunnel Is la I one of ot peculiar The This formation is I the th in which are re found soft oft shells and Glad Hod Gladstone tone stone uplifted here by onus nome great grant coo con convulsion of or nature and left lett tilted tU at an anile angle o nf of f about 25 26 degrees from Crom the Uie porn borl JOlt tal To hasten huten the worK ork of pt con oon I a 0 central shaft short was MOB sunk the tho ther r I top tup of oC w h being feet reet above abo grads grad From the bottom bollom of or this tills headings were started sta east eaRt and west welt and oro puttied pushed as u rapidly ia as to con connect heel with the end headings Until a I heavy How flow of If water caused a II filon alon of ot work worl Is now In progress l t l at tit the ends only The groat tat eat depth below the surface Is 45 feet Tie The T e point above s 11 sea a 1 level leel d Is feet The tunnel will willbo willbe bo be 11 finished for tor H a single track It H will willbe willbe be lined throughout with timber and finally with concrete making It whan finished one aile of the most |