Expleering the unique history and literary life. Were going to show you several stops to our visit of tacoma, washington. The western terms of the Northern Pacific railroad. The area is in the southern section of puget sound, which is sort of Washington State and the pacific northwests great inland water. And when the Transcontinental Railway came, there was talk of one day being able to expand puget sound. But really wasnt an undertaking anybody was prepared to do. During the depression federal programmed like the building of the grand coolly dam and stuff, there were big job creating works projects happening in the pacific northwest. And in the mid1930s there began be to talk of creating a bridge over puget sound to reach from tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula. Tacoma narrows bridge was open in 1940 after two years of construction. The tacoma narrows is a bit of a wind tunnel and people working on the deck began to notice movement and almost like airplane wing lift in the bridge. So unl
Noon to 3 00 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. Hi, im john farrell, a producer on our cities tour team. This year we visited 24 cities exploring their unique history and literary life. Right now were going to show you several stops from our visit to that coma, washington, a city chosen as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific railroad. The area were standing in right now is in the southern section of puget sound which is the sort of Washington State and the pacific northwest. Its kind of great inland water. When the Transcontinental Railroad aim, there was talk of one day being able to span puget sound but it really wasnt an undertaking anybody was prepared to do. During the depression, northeasterly policemans like the building of the grand cooley dam and stuff, there were big job creating public works projects happening in the pacific northwest. And in the mid1930s, there began to be talk about creating a bridge over puget sound to reach from tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula.
Hi, im john feral. This year we visited 24 cities expleering the unique history and literary life. Were going to show you several stops to our visit of tacoma, washington. The western terms of the Northern Pacific railroad. The area is in the southern section of puget sound, which is sort of Washington State and the pacific northwests great inland water. And when the Transcontinental Railway came, there was talk of one day being able to expand puget sound. But really wasnt an undertaking anybody was prepared to do. During the depression federal programmed like the building of the grand coolly dam and stuff, there were big job creating works projects happening in the pacific northwest. And in the mid1930s there began be to talk of creating a bridge over puget sound to reach from tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula. Tacoma narrows bridge was open in 1940 after two years of construction. The tacoma narrows is a bit of a wind tunnel and people working on the deck began to notice movement and al
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