Viaduc de Garabit

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Date of shooting: ?? 08.1889.Viaduk Garabi (Fr. Viaduc de Garabit) - French metal railway bridge. The monument of history since 1965.Ostrofoyed in the Kantal Department through the Treuier River on the Beneva-Clermont-Ferran railway in the Central Array area. 1880-1884 was built under the leadership of the Gustava Eifel engineer. Most of the same design A few years earlier than the city of Eifel designed for Portugal. Auduk Garabi is one of the most famous engineering solutions of the second half of the XIX century. The commissioned in November 1885, he had a length of 565 meters and a mass of 3587 tons. The metal frame of the bridge consisted of separate metal farms (over 7000 farms). An even more impressive was that the actual deviation (shift under load) was measured at 8 millimeters (0.315 inches), as was calculated by Eiffel. The bridge canvas elevated above the water surface of the River Troyer 124 m, which made Viaduct with the highest bridge in the world.