Passing through the HUGE cut at Pikeville, KY, which rerouted the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy around the city         
From kentuckytourism.com The Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River flows through one of the largest earth moving projects in the history of the world. The Pikeville Cut-Thru Project stands to date as the third largest civil engineering project in the world, second in the western hemisphere to the Panama Canal.
Date: 7/5/1979 Location: Pikeville, KY   Map Show Pikeville on a rail map Views: 392 Collection Of:   G. R. Harper
Author:  G. R. Harper
Passing through the HUGE cut at Pikeville, KY, which rerouted the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy around the city
Picture Categories: This picture is part of album:  Steam up the Big Sandy SD. CP 2839 on the Independence Ltd. July 1979.
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