Roosevelt Standard | 1931-12-10 | Page 19 | Camels and Locomotives

camels and locomotives one of the biggest concrete bridges in the world is along the new railway lines being built through turkey although only a little over miles long iong the two lines penetrate difficult country necessitating the building of about 2000 bridges large and small and many tunnels in angora an average of 8 blasts of dynamite a day are used to dislodge the rocky wa wastes stess more than peasants and shepherds are employed on the work besides thousands of peasant women who labor as stone breakers an oriental touch is given to the picture by thousands of camels used to transport supplies ns as the building progresses