Original timber trestle first replaced by steel bridge and later by massive earth fills on Catawissa Branch of Reading Railroad at Ringtown, Pa.; probably greatest earth fill on any railroad; length 3340 ft.; maximum height 116 ft.; maximum width 368 ft.; contains 1,352,613 cu. yd. material; total cost $1,200,000.
A mammoth railroad fill
Sci. Am
Scientific American ; 139 , n 1
1928
2 pages
4 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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