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Show I Tho New Western Pacific Railroad. Tho transportation event of 1910 was tho completion and opening for freight and passenger traffic of tho Western Pacific railway, tho Pacific coast extension of tho Denver & Rio Grando railroad. Tho Western Pacific Is conceded to bo tho best now railroad over laid down. Approximately 1,000 miles long, .every mile Is laid with rails weighing 85 pounds to tho yard. Tho rlso or fall does not exceed 52 feet to tbo mile oven when crossing tho Sierras. Sier-ras. Its bridges aro of steel and concrete. con-crete. Its modern stations, mostly ot Mt Spanish type, aro very artistic and Ki exceptionally attractive. Tho passon- mm gcr equipment Is all steel and the cars iK aro electrically lighted. Tho scenery IV rivals that of tho famous Rio Grando. In connection with tho Denver & W Rio Grando, through tourist and Btand- ard sleeping cars aro operated dally I between Denver and San Francisco. 1 Close train connections aro mado at I Salt Lako City, east and westbound. |