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	Garabit viaduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Garabit Viaduct (Viaduc de Garabit in French) is a railroad arch bridge spanning the Truyère River near Ruynes en Margeride, Cantal, France, in the mountainous Massif Central region.
		The Garabit Viaduct’s arches were engineered to have support hinges to allow the crescent shape to widen.
		Garabit Viaduct was used to represent the condamned "Cassandra Crossing" bridge on the 1970s movie The Cassandra Crossing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garabit_viaduct (467 words)

	Millau Viaduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Millau Viaduct (French: le Viaduc de Millau) is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France.
		The viaduct is the tallest vehicular bridge in the world, nearly twice as tall as the previous tallest vehicular bridge in Europe, the Europabrücke in Austria.
		The viaduct was officially inaugurated by President Chirac on 14 December 2004 to open for traffic on 16 December, several weeks ahead of the revised schedule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millau_Viaduct (1549 words)

	Invitation au voyage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With it’s 165 meters wide arch, the viaduct of Garabit crosses the Truyère river with majesty.
		The viaduct of Garabit, over the Truyere’s Valley Cantal (15) has been built for the railway between Marvejols and Neussargues.
		The viaduct is made of a 447.88 m long metallic truss-girder, borne by metallic variable height piers.
	renaud.leconte.free.fr /garabit2.htm (171 words)

	Découvrez Lapeyrouse dans le Puy-de-Dôme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tests of the viaducts were carried out on 28th November 1870 with a train formed by two engines each weighing 65 tonnes and 6 wagons weighing in total 89 tonnes.
		Between Louroux and Bellenaves, one crosses the valley of Bellon by means of viaducts of 48 m height and 231 m length.
		Gustave Eiffel had an innovative method of creating strengthening piles at the foot of the supports by giving them a curved shape which insured stability and invented a new method of sliding the railway section (built beforehand on one of the banks) onto the supports so that the stress was equally dispersed over the columns.
	63lapeyrouse.free.fr /tourisme/viaducsgb.htm (648 words)

	motorway aires - aires on the magnificent A75 autoroute \| France zone at abelard.org
		This section, of 340 km between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers, is free apart from the toll on the Viaduct de Millau.
		The Viaduct de Millau is in Département 12 - Aveyron.
		The Viaduct de Garabit is in Département 15 - Cantal.
	www.abelard.org /france/motorway-aires10.php (1395 words)

	Le Viaduc de Millau en Aveyron
		The Viaduct was designed to meet the highest standards, in terms of longevity and resistance to seismic events and the most extreme of meteorological conditions.
		The Millau Viaduct is equipped with safety barriers built to withstand truck impacts, transparent windscreens 3-meters in height and emergency lanes for the travellers’ greater comfort and safety.
		Buttressed to the north by the Causse Rouge and to the south by the Causse du Larzac, the Millau Viaduct crosses the Tarn Gorges, one of France’s greatest natural tourist attractions.
	www.tourisme-aveyron.com /uk/aveyron/decouverte/viaduc_de_millau.php (666 words)

	le viaduc de garabit, histoire de sa construction
		From this alliance the Viaduct results which, since more d’un century, joins together two banks of Truyère.
		rchitectural challenge, utility vocation, object of inheritance, c’est a viaduct with three dimensions which joins together the elements air, ground and water.
		Garabit is a great realization in a paradisiac site.
	www.garabit.com /viaducgarabit/viaduc.htm (985 words)

	BUILDING BIG: Databank: Garabit Viaduct
		For many years, the Garabit Viaduct remained the tallest bridge in the world.
		The single railroad track crosses the Garabit Valley, 400 feet above the Truyere River.
		Gustave Eiffel's tremendous success with the Garabit Viaduct, and later with the framework of the Statue of Liberty and Paris' Eiffel Tower, earned him the nickname "magician of iron."
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/garabit_viaduct.html (305 words)

	Gustave Eiffel
		His outstanding career as a constructor was marked by work on the Porto viaduct over the river Douro in 1876, the Garabit viaduct in 1884, Pest railway station in Hungary, the dome of the Nice observatory, and the ingenious structure of the Statue of Liberty.
		His career was marked by a large number of fine buildings, among which two of the most outstanding are the twin edifices of the Porto viaduct and the Garabit viaduct in the Cantal region of France.
		Equally outstanding are certain other structures in which the pure inventiveness of Eiffel's company was allowed free rein, such as the "portable" bridges sold around the world in "kits", the ingenious structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York, and of course the Eiffel Tower itself.
	www.tour-eiffel.fr /teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/gustave_eiffel.html (606 words)

	AskMen.com - Brooklyn bridge
		While the Garabit Viaduct may never be the most famed of Gustave Eiffel's designs (the Eiffel Tower and the framework of the Statue of Liberty make for some pretty heavy competition), it will certainly rank among the more ingenious of his creations.
		Its 1853-foot span undoubtedly garnered the structure further attention, but what made the Garabit truly remarkable for its time was its architecture.
		Eiffel's career never recovered, and the Garabit remained one of the final accomplishments of perhaps the greatest engineering designer of the century.
	www.askmen.com /fashion/travel_top_ten/42c_travel_top_ten.html (923 words)

	Bridges: Kinzua Bridge Viaduct, Kinzua Creek Valley Near Mount Jewett, Before and After Collapse, McKean County ...
		A reasonable alternative to rebuilding might be to simply leave what's left of the Kinzua Viaduct standing and leave the collapsed spans in place in the valley.
		The disaster site would certainly be of interest to many people if they could walk out to the end of the remaining sections of the bridge to view the valley and the tragic outcome of that July 21 storm.
		The viaduct’s standing columns, the valley below, and posted areas of the park are strictly off-limits to all but work crews and park personnel.
	www.venangoil.com /bridgeskinzua.html (4035 words)

	ViaMichelin Magazine
		Garabit Viaduct seen from the rest area on the A75.
		Coming from Paris by the A75 motorway, pull into the Garabit rest area in Cantal, amongst one of the most beautiful in France, where you'll have a superb view of the imposing Garabit Viaduct traversing the Truyère Gorges, an architectural masterpiece (1882-1884) designed by Gustave Eiffel.
		Leave the motorway at the next exit and head for the Beau Site hotel-restaurant: enjoy a coq au vin auvergnat in the scenic dining room where you can continue to admire the viaduct as it is gradually lit up as the sun sets.
	www.viamichelin.com /viamichelin/gbr/tpl/mag4/art20040701/htm/rte_touareg_cantal.htm (1785 words)

	BookRags: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Biography
		He designed numerous bridges, the first in 1858 in Bordeaux, viaducts, and exhibition buildings; the ultimate in exhibition architecture came in 1889, when he built his famous tower in Paris.
		Eiffel's Garabit viaduct over the Truyère near Ruines, France, is 1,625 feet long and 400 feet high and has a central span of 210 feet.
		An associate engineer on the Garabit viaduct, Maurice Koechlin, encouraged Eiffel in his design for the Paris exhibition tower of 1889.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alexandre-gustave-eiffel (432 words)

	Hello: Colourful Bits
		When we first developed the website for Garabit, we intended to use a stock photo from a well-known source.
		However, the costs are prohibitive: hundreds of euros for a single photo on a single (home) page without the right to crop, scale or alter the photo.
		The photo we had in mind was a beautiful fl and white photo from around 1900 of the viaduct after which our company is named.
	www.hello.nl /2005Q4/20051117WebsiteFootage.html (282 words)

	OTUA - Architecture & design - Architecture and structure of bridges
		Examples of major steel bridges such as the Garabit Viaduct (designed by Gustave Eiffel and opened in 1884) and the Forth Rail Bridge (John Fowler and Benjamin Baker and opened in 1890) are pure engineering forms devoid of ornament.
		The new Millau Viaduct is a design collaboration between engineering and architect teams (led respectively by Michel Virlogeux and Norman Foster).
		Whilst the overall proportions of the viaduct were determined largely by technical considerations including its method of construction, the sculptural forms of the piers, masts and bridge deck were developed in close collaboration between engineer and architect teams.
	www.otua.org /steelbridge2004/architecture1.html (793 words)

	USNews.com: Engineering mastery spawned a new kind of beauty in the Eiffel Tower
		His masterpiece, the Garabit viaduct in the Massif Central mountains, was being completed as Koechlin drew the tower.
		The great threat to any tall structure is wind; in 1879, gales had toppled the Tay Bridge in Scotland, dropping a train and 75 passengers into the Firth of Tay.
		Eiffel's solution, at Garabit and on the Champ de Mars, was to stiffen his structures with lacy truss work that gave the wind nothing to push on.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/030630/30eiffel_2.htm (542 words)

	Iquitos, Peru - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Starting in 1872 he attracted foreign contracts, and in 1877 he erected over the Douro River in Porto (Oporto), Portugal, a steel arch bridge 160 m (525 ft) in height.
		Eiffel's work combined expert craftmanship and graceful design, qualities that are evident in the Garabit viaduct in France.
		Completed in 1884, it was for a time the highest bridge in the world, winning Eiffel's factory a worldwide reputation for excellence.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /iquitos.htm (405 words)

	Bridge photos, Bridge postcards -- Bridgepix.com
		When it opened with a single railroad track in November 1885, the Garabit Viaduct was 1853 feet long and weighed 3587 tons.
		Garabit Viaduct was used to represent the condamned “Cassandra Crossing”; bridge on the 1970s movie The Cassandra Crossing.
		To see her previous submission, checkout “Thankx for the Pix: Glenfinnan Viaduct, Scotland“.
	www.bridgepix.com /bridgeblog/index.php?paged=2 (4236 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The 1892 high bridge was built by the Phoenix Bridge Company of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and was of the metal viaduct style with cantilever center sections.
		The bridge was thus the highest railroad bridge in North America and the third highest in the world (exceeded only by the 401-foot Garabit Viaduct in France, built in 1884, and the 336-foot Loa Viaduct in Bolivia, built in 1889).
		For many years it was a tradition for trains to pause near the bridge and proceed slowly so that passengers could view the canyon, the landmark bridge, and the river below.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/erp2.html (676 words)

	The Statue of Liberty History III
		However, he also participated in broad array of some of the most prestigious structural work of the 19th and early 20th century, including the Maria Pia bridge and the Porto viaduct spanning Portugal's Douro River [1876], the Garabit
		viaduct in the Cantal region of France, Budapest Hungary's Pest railway station [1884], the dome of the Nice observatory and the ingenious structural infrastructure of the Statue of Liberty.
		His crowning achievement was, of course, the Tour Eiffel [Eiffel Tower], which he erected in Paris in 1889.
	www.french-at-a-touch.com /Statue_of_Liberty/statue_of_liberty_iii.htm (514 words)

	Culture in Auvergne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tucked away in an XVIIIth century castle, the ecomuseum hosts an exhibit on the Viaduct of Garabit and the history of its construction.
		Built by Gustave Eiffel (architect of the Eiffel tower) between 1880 and 1884 the construction of the viaduct required some 400 people for the upkeep and surveillance of the site.
		“The men of the viaduct - chronicle of Garabit” exhibit offers a unique presentation of this large metal structure and its work site.
	www.cr-auvergne.fr /uk/auvergne/culture/decouverte/auvergne_culture_decouverte_musees_margeride.asp (296 words)

	TrekEarth \| The Garabit Viaduct Photo
		The tourist view from the motorway rest area.
		I like the washed out red colour they have used for the viaduct.
		You must be logged in to start a discussion.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/photo222547.htm (42 words)

	Gustave Eiffel
		Eiffel worked on structures such as a bridge across the Garonne River at Bordeaux, train stations at Toulouse and Agen, and the Garabit Viaduct in southern France, some of which are still standing to this very day.
		But some of Eiffel's most historic and most-known structures and designs are what makes him so special, his work on la tour Eiffel (the Eiffel tower) and la statue de liberté (the Statue of Liberty).
		Gustave Eiffel has a huge reputation as an excellent architect of bridges, viaducts, and the Eiffel Tower.
	www.monger.net /schnorrenberg/Famous/GEiffel/g_eiffel.htm (1331 words)

	Auvergne Cycling Holidays
		This holiday is a grand tour of the region for cyclists who like to cover slightly longer distances, travelling over 50km including some climbing each day.
		Visit the spectacular Garabit viaduct and the spa towns of Vic sur Cère and Chaudes Aigues.
		Visit the spectacular Garabit viaduct and have lunch overlooking the Truyère river on your way to historic Chaudes Aigues, famous for its hot water springs
	www.bootsandbikes.co.uk /Acycling/AChpTB8n.html (444 words)

	Discover Auvergne Cycling
		Ancient stone steps of the Chemin des Chèvres descend to St Flour bas, the river and the church of St Christine.
		The massive iron viaduct, spanning over 500 metres, was built by Gustave Eiffel in 1884.
		Following this, he was commissioned to build the Eiffel tower in Paris.
	www.bootsandbikes.co.uk /DiscoverAC.html (527 words)

	Office de tourisme de Saint-Flour, PAYS DE SAINT FLOUR 15100 Saint-Flour
		This novel route through places not accessible by car, takes you to one of the greatest and most audacious of Gustave Eiffel's masterpieces: the Garabit Viaduct (1884).
		After lunching as you will, the boat is at hand for a cruise-outing to the heart of the magnificent Truyère Gorges.
		A visit with commentary celebrates the viaduct and a tasting of local specialities brings a memorable day to a close.
	www.saint-flour.com /en,1,41.html (670 words)

	Scientists Message Board
		As of 1872 it began to attract foreign contracts, and in 1877 it raised a bridge on the Duero river in Portugal, that consisted of steel an individual arc of 160 ms of height.
		The interest of Eiffel was not only commercial; its work combined matchless crafts with an elegant design, as it is observed in the Garabit viaduct of France, that during a time was the highest bridge of the world.
		1880 - 1884 Garabit Viaduct of the Truyère River in France
	mb.sparknotes.com /mb.epl?b=13&m=632600&t=201379&w=1 (631 words)

	tgveurofrance.com - High speed trains - The TGV train in Europe and France
		A new movie clip of a bauxite train in Southern France has been added to the various rail movies.
		Various pictures of the Garabit viaduct on the Neussargues-Béziers railway line are now available.
		The Millau viaduct straddling the Clermont-Ferrand - Béziers railway
	perso.orange.fr /tgveurofrance.com/indexen.htm (662 words)

	Emmanuel Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The purpose of the trip was to see the new viaduct by Sir Norman Foster.
		But on our way, we also saw many other interesting places: we passed by the cemetery of Vauxbuin, the monorail of Saran, the city of Orleans and the Garabit bridge, designed by Gustave Eiffel.
		We were both taking pictures, and although we oftentimes were shooting from the same angles, it was a great way for me to learn more.
	emmanuelonline.wordpress.com /2005/09 (1777 words)

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