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Rock fill to replace trestle across Great Salt Lake
Rock and gravel handling contract near Promontory Point, west of Ogden, Utah; single track wooden trestle, expensive to maintain, will be replaced with rock and gravel fill that will be almost 13 mi long, up to 500 ft wide at its base, 38 ft wide at top and up to 77 ft thick; estimated 32,000,000 cu yd of material will go into project; total cost $45,000,000.
Rock fill to replace trestle across Great Salt Lake
Rock and gravel handling contract near Promontory Point, west of Ogden, Utah; single track wooden trestle, expensive to maintain, will be replaced with rock and gravel fill that will be almost 13 mi long, up to 500 ft wide at its base, 38 ft wide at top and up to 77 ft thick; estimated 32,000,000 cu yd of material will go into project; total cost $45,000,000.
Rock fill to replace trestle across Great Salt Lake
Rock Products
Lenhart, W.B. (author)
Rock Products ; 60
1957
Article (Journal)
English
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