Show HISTORY OF THE LUCIN What It Saves and Difficulties of the Work of Every railroad and most will be able to appreciate the advantages of the Ogden-Lucin cutoff across the north end of Great Salt from the following figures Original road mileS New road 91 miles New road saves degrees of curvature and 1515 feet vertical of Sharpest curve of new road one and one-half versus ten degrees on old Steepest grade of new road 21 feet per versus 90 feet per mile on the old In Great Salt miles permanent trestle miles temporary trestle This totals miles of trestle ot the temporary is being replay tn J V embankment which is approaching completion temporary trestle having been built for the f facilitating the construction of the L 1 f treStle necessitated the use g I boats a wheel www the which built was on the lake as soon as the track laid west from Ogden reached sufficient depth of The rate of progress in constructing the trestle depended chiefly on the supply of the very great amount of which made its transportation by rail a difficult and burdensome in addition to the very great amount of commercial freight requiring transportation in the ordinary course of The trestle force was organized and equipped to build one and one-quarter miles of trestle per and the greatest amount of trestle built in any one week of six working working by was one mile and seven working a little more than five days of the The temporary trestle is in water from shallow depth to a depth of twenty-seven The permanent trestle is nearly in water from thirty to thirty-four feet deep at the present level of the which present level is about one foot below the zero point of the Garfield beach gauge- The filling material for making the embankment replacing the temporary trestle is obtained in part from near the east shore of the at Little and in part from Promontory on which the railroad is situated for about four and one-half and in part from the Hogup about sixteen miles west of the The rock for protection of the embankments from wave-wash is obtained in the Lakeside mountains on the west shore of the Mileage in The railroad is on embankment and on trestle in Great Salt Between the east shore and Promontory Between Promontory Point and the west t The embankment between the east shore of the lake and Promontory almost wholly cutting off the portion of the lake to the north from the main and the water of the Bear river emptying into this portion of the has caused the water to freshen enough so-that in the winter of ice formed over the entire area north of the railroad embankment to thickness of about one a attended by less loss of life than The work has been mileage of ordinary railroad equal on an No Loss of Rolling loss whatever of any engines or There has been no less to rolling stock from derailments would ordinarily be attendant of ordinary the construction of an equal mileage railroad construction the material of the lake bottom by suitably continued filling of rock and a firm bank is There has been J less of encountered than was reasonably to be Work of this but of greater is common in the vicinity of San Francisco bay and similar The track was laid from Ogden to the east shore of the lake June continuing met the track laid eastward from Luein November near the middle of the No trestle material was delivered at the lake for the work until after the of r The Ogden-Lucin cut-off is essentially a direct being by computation by or longer than an air |