Show 260 Original cost of the Much work has been done on has been double -- tracked cut-o- ff it The at $8358833 Most of the line was placed since then trestle and fills have been constantly reenforced some 160000 carloads of rock have been poured into the lake as reenforcement since 1903 Building of a railway across the lake was a great achievement in railroad construction It is probably the longest line of straight level track in the United States looking from this bend Cat Promontory Point the western trestle is seen to curve down nrd disappear at the horizon the station and water tower at its far end are out of sight Hence the trestle is in the words of the late Villiam Hood under whose direction as chief engineer of the railroad the cutoff was built "the only structure which is long enough straight enough and level enough to show the curvature of the earth” 35 One train a week was run over the old line even after On man-ma- de Lucin into general use However this practice was discontinued during the early 1930’s and the rails were torn up as part of the scrap iron salvage campaign in 1943 Cut-o- ff 34 Mann came "Bridging Great Salt Lake” 24 35 Villiam M Davis "Lake Bonneville and Great Salt Lake” The Salt Lake Region 11 |