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...railroads also continued to build. Their new line construction in 1933 totaled 24.24 mi., smallest since the first steam road was built 102 years ago. Of this total 11 mi. were built by the Virginian as the last section of a connection with Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk 6 Western at Gilbert, W. Va. Another 7 mi. was built between Olmos and Quwmado Valley, Texas by Southern Pacific. Not included in last year's total was the 12½-mi. spur which Andrew William Mellon's little Montour finally completed in the face of injunctions plastered on almost every...
...purple era of rail construction was paling before the War, but it did not end until 1931 when Arthur Curtiss James drove the golden spike near Bieber, Calif, in a 200-mi. link between his Western Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...
Dotsero to Orestod. Carried over from last year, however, is the construction of one new line which will make the 1934 total more than half again as big as that of 1933. This is the 38-mi. Dotsero Cutoff, now 85% completed. Built largely with RFC funds, it will run from Dotsero, Col. on the Denver & Rio Grande Western to Orestod (Dotsero backward) on the Denver & Salt Lake. The Dotsero Cutoff will finally put to more than nominal use the famed Moffat Tunnel just west of Denver. Commonly known as "Moffat's Folly" or "The Gateway to Nowhere," this...
Everybody agreed that since it was financially impossible to construct the line from Craig straight through to Salt Lake (346 mi.), the next best thing was to build a short line which would connect with the parent Denver & Rio Grande, which does run to Salt Lake. It would save Denver & Rio Grande 173 mi. between the two cities. But neither parent nor child was rich and government aid was not obtained until...
Pennsylvania has completed electrification of its four track line from New York through Philadelphia to Wilmington (118 mi.). From Public Works Administration it borrowed $77,000,000 to carry the job on to Washington (another 108 mi.) and to embark on the greatest equipment-buying spree in the history of railroading. General William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania's up-from-Yale-and-the-tracks president, last week estimated that the whole project would provide two years' work for at least 25,000 men. "The Standard Railroad of the World" will build 7,000 steel box cars at a cost...