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Overhead Railroad Crossings and Modern Traffic
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BELT LINK CROSSING SHERMAN AVENUE.
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UNION PACIFIC CROSSING ON SIXTH STREET.
B. A M. AND U. P. CROSSINQ ON THIRTEENTH STREET.
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M I generation, will never believe
ilui n uci c iuo iiuiut-uBo sit Ma
ture at the foot of Douglas street
spans the misht y Missouri, a half
century ago the "4'.ters" had to haul water
In which to float ferry boats that carried
long lines of freight wagons across the
river; the next generation will likely not
believe the old man who remembers the
time he brought a wagonload of pumpkins
to Omaha and had to wait forty minutes
while a freight train was switching before
he could cross the tracks Into the city In
safety; or the old man who remembers
when the mud was so deep that he hnd t
go home after getting In the city limits
nnd bring back another team to pull him
out. And all will wonder from whence
came the Inspiration that canned John C
Saxe to write:
Hunt ever been to Omahu,
Where rolls the broad Missouri down.
Where four strong liors scarce can draw
An empty wagon through the town?
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BELT LINK CROSSING AT FOHTY-KIKTH AND CUMING.
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BURLINGTON CROSSING UNION PACIFIC NEAR SOUTH OMAHA.
II & M. AND U. P. CROSSING ON FOURTEENTH STREET.
And yet the stories of the
old-timers will be based on
facts. It is the wonderful
growth and progress of
Omaha that makes them seem
Incredible, and the poem of
Saxe a slander.
The bridges across the Mis
souri river give one on enter
ing the city a fair Idea of
what to expect lu the way of
facilities for tranic. Full of
western push nnd enterprise,
Its pei pie compelled to strug
gle for everything they got,
Otiiiiha. among its first acts,
lu paving tho way to become
the commercial as well as
the geographical center of
the United States, began to
prepare roads for its traffic.
With this cud In view hol
lows have been spanned, a
river has been bridged, hills
have bei n cut through, and
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ILLINOIS CENTRAL CROSSING M. P. AND ELK HORN YARDS.
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EI.K1IORN VIADUCT OVER BELT LINE.
B. & M. AND U. P. CROSSING ON EIGHTH STREET.
no expense and no trouble has
been spared to construct a
place for every kind of traffic
and travel, from railroad
trains which go ninety miles
an hour outside of the city
limits to the furniture van
which travels when hired out
at $2 an hour one mile in
five hours and gets to its
destination at bedtime.
Among the people here it ie
an unwritten law, "keep In
the procession or be run
over," but that law has never
been enforced In regard to
Its traffic, and each year
makes that day more distant
when such a law will be en
forced. Early In its youth,
as railroad after railroad
came Into the city, draining
the country around of Its
products, Omaha realized th;tt
city traffic would have to be
provided for; that city traffic could not
be Interrupted by the railroads an I
that the railroads could not stand
aside for the city traffic hence the
construction of viaducts. The railroad
tracks were ppanued, In other places they
were raised and the wagon road builded un
derneath the tracks. And since the first
viaduct was constructed sixteen years ago
Omaha has kept up the gocd work in pro
viding for Its traffic, until now it stands at
the head of all towns of Its class and its
class is the first class in the number of
viaducts. Up to date It has no tunnels or
subways seven milet in length, because It
docs not need one, but it has constructed
viaducts with such regularity and has been
so persistent in making good its roads that
the dedication to the use of the public of a
viaduct excites a moment's Interest and the
"incident" is soon forgotten, except by the
residents of that particular neighborhood.
Sixteen years ago oersons from the south
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