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The Work in Hind.Very few of Uie multitude of en-joyment-seekerH who have this Bensontravelled over the railway line “on pleasure lwnt to the many inviting suburban retreats in Conception Bay, or passengers whose business pursuits require of them journeys to the trade centres of Conception Bay, recognise or even imagine the very important operations which are being carrjcri on by the Railway Company for their more safe and Comfortable transjior-tation, and it is only the occasional individual who seeks the quietude and freedom of the platform to Bmoke bis pipe in jreacc, who gets even an idea of the magnitude of the work engaged in. It will lie rememliered that during, last winter the damage done by floodsAlong the Line and particularly in the ucighliourhood of Kelligrews was very severe, heavy bridges being carried away and large sections of track uprooted. l*ns-senger tratlic had to is? suspended for some days, while the conveyance of freight was abandoned for a time. The relaying of the track was quickly accomplished, hut the yawning chasms, formerly safely bridged, pre, sen led a more serious obstacle. The raging torrent, in its mail course, had not only swept away the bridges, proper, but had tom up mid scattered broadcast, the heavy stone abutments, leaving, literally, “ not a stone upon a stone. Temporary substantial wooden bridges were constructed of thickly placed piles, and Heavy Beams of timber, care Iwing taken to so locate them that ionnaiieut structures could be erected without interference with the regular trafllc. The past few mouths have witnessed nji army of workmen engaged in constructing2 these, and a recapitulation of the modus operand!, will tend to reassure,j even the most nervous minded female to whom Manuels Bridge is a thing Ij of terror and Seal Cove a purgatory', A forest of piles is driven down on either side of each of the watercourses effected, to n distance of about six feet below the water's edge. On top of these is secured specially constructed wooden hoxea of the dimensions of- the abutments, rising to tbc watefr's level, and these are fillet! with liquid cement, which is allowed to “ set. On lop of these are again placed thestone abutments. These ore composed of very durable stone, in many instances of extraordinary size, and weighing some tons, got at the com irony's quarries near Indian Pond. They are built up to about four feet below the level of the j track, where a ledge three feet deep is left, and receding back that dis-1 tance, the masonry continues to the V .top. (n these ledges the bridges are ; placed. The stones are f Solidly Scouredb with cement, the Interstices and cavi-3 ties being flUed with it, and the whole f represents a most durable work, I creditable alike to designers and t workmen. The bridges proper are made of heavy plates and iteams of i angle iron, so constructed as to pre-• sent the greatest resisting power, andare marvels of light though solid
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Saint Johns Evening Herald
Saint Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Wed, Sep 21, 1892
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