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Show Straight Steel Linea Two of the longest stretches ot railroad without s curve, are: The 72-iulle stretch on the Rock Island lines from Gumon, Okla, to Dalhort, Texas. At Dalhutt there is a quarter degree curve snd then it goes on for 25 miles further without s curve. The Seaboard airline In Florida has eight curves In 200 miles. It Is said that on the Argentine-Pacific railway to the foot of the Andes, there ts a stretch of 200 miles without a curve or a cutting cut-ting or an embankment deeper than three feet On the Australian Trans-Continental Trans-Continental railway crossing the Null arbor plain, there Is a straight-away of 300 miles. 1 |