America's Highest Viaduct.
The Pecos viaduct is the highest in North America. If one dropped a stone from the centre of the bridge to the water beneath, it would fall 321 feet. The bridge crosses the Pecos river m Texas ; and, besides being of great height, is 2,180 feet m length. So far as known, there are but two railroad viaducts in the world which are higher. One is the new bridge over the Zambesi river at Victoria Falls in South Africa, about 420 feet high, and the other the Loa viaduct in South America, which has a height of 336 feet.
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Progress, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 December 1906, Page 49
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102America's Highest Viaduct. Progress, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 December 1906, Page 49
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