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RE: Re: Subject: (erielack) Moodna Viaduct

"Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com> wrote:

>It's a small creek, too-you could walk across it most of the time and not
>get your knees wet. Anyone notice how some of the most impressive
>engineering works are built to cross such minor waterways? Look at Starrucca
>and Tunkhannock Viaducts, though I remember reading somewhere that the
>engineers on the Cutoff project originally planned a fill with culverts to
>cross the valley at Nicholson. Then they saw Tunkhannock Creek flood in the
>spring, and decided a viaduct would be a better idea.

We can add the Kinzua viaduct to this list...huge structure, tiny creek.
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