Twelve Million Dollars for Twenty 

 Minutes Train Time 



TO cut twenty minutes from the 

 running- time of passenger trains 

 and one hour from the running time 

 of freight trains between New York 

 and Buffalo, the Lackawanna Railroad 

 has invested twelve million dollars in 

 a concrete arch half a mile long-. 



structure crossing the Tuckhannock Val- 

 ley in ten graceful arches. It is of 

 concrete, the largest concrete structure 

 in the world, containing more than five 

 hundred million cubic yards of ma- 

 terial. Some idea of its vast size 

 can be gained by a comparison with 

 the dimensions of better known struc- 

 tures. If the Flatiron Building 

 were eight blocks longer, it 

 would have practically the 

 same dimensions as the 

 Tuckhannock Via- 

 duct. If the road- 

 way of the 

 Brooklyn 

 Bridge 



This beautiful viaduct built of concrete, cuts twenty minutes from the train time of 

 the Lackawanna between New York and Buffalo, but it also saves miles of heavy grades 



By the old, circuitous route, due to the 

 heavy grades, five engines were required 

 for the work that two can now do com- 

 fortably. 



The new viaduct is an imposing 



were one hundred feet higher, it would 

 have the dimensions of the viaduct. 



Including the viaduct, the total length 

 of the cutofif is three and one-half miles. 

 The old route is thirtv-nine miles. 



