The Archive · 1928

Composition of Train 2 Locomotives

3 Sed close cars for body-guards, cars. for some cabinet 1 Peking-Mukden railway private car (No. 80) for Marshal Chang. ite, guards, baggage ete.

The Scene of the Disaster The disaster took place just where I the South Manchuria railway be-j tween Makden and Changchun on a viaduct crosses the Peking-Mukden railway between Huang Ku-tun and Mukden City station. Details of the viaduct are shown. on the accompanying sketch. As shown by the latter, the viaduct consists of three spans, supported by two piers in the middle and buttresses at both ends. Both piers and buttresses are jof granite masonry, the former with a core of concrete and. measuring Stout 6 ft. across. The steel bridges, each more than 30 ft. long, are of heavy construction, the beams being about 5 ft, high. Clove to the fic, at the base of the South Manchuria Railway embankment, there are three blockhouses built for the Japanese railway guards, on the east side and one on the west side. They are made of railway sleepers and surrounded by barbed wire entanglements.

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