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Show A South American Itnilroad. S The now Argentine Taciflo railroad from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the Andes hus on ft what is probably tljn longest tangent in tbo world. TIiih is :t-10 kilometers (11 milei) without a curve. It ( uJmj a rcninrknbls fart that in this distance there. Is not o iiif;l bridge, and no opening larger than au ordinary ordi-nary culvert. Tbo level nature of tho country coun-try will Im appreciated from the statement of tho further fact that on the 10 kilometers thero is no cut greater than oho meter la depth, and no Gil of a height exceeding one meter. Tho country, fn fact, Neema to b almost an ideal one for railroad construction. There are some drawbacks, bowovcr, one being that thero is nlmost an entire absence of wood ou the plain across which tbe western west-ern end of tho road is located. TliiB lias Jed to tho extensive use of metallic ties, which will bo used on nearly the entire roaiL Work tins already been begun ou the mountain section sec-tion of the mad, which. Is to cross tho Andes and unite with the Chilian hue Kngioeor lug Journal. |