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Building a long highway embankment with drag scrapers
Earth fill 8500 ft. long will connect levee at Memphis, Tenn., with Harahan bridge across Mississippi River; embankment will carry highway replacing old timber trestle; plant used is of type developed in levee construction consisting of crescent-shaped scraper controlled from two towers 550 ft. apart.
Building a long highway embankment with drag scrapers
Earth fill 8500 ft. long will connect levee at Memphis, Tenn., with Harahan bridge across Mississippi River; embankment will carry highway replacing old timber trestle; plant used is of type developed in levee construction consisting of crescent-shaped scraper controlled from two towers 550 ft. apart.
Building a long highway embankment with drag scrapers
Eng. News-Rec
Engineering News Record ; 101
1928
2 pages
2 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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