NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY - FARGO, N D



DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

TOILS ON WEAK SOILS:

A PHOTO-ESSAY ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STOCKWOOD FILL (1906 - 1909)



In 1906, the Northern Pacific Railway began construction of a massive railroad embankment in northwestern Minnesota. Almost immediately, the embankment began to sink into the earth under its own great weight . . .

Cover photo of Stockwood Fill Construction, 1906
S.P. Wange photo, © Clay County Historical Society


Donald P. Schwert, Department of Geosciences,
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105

Mark E. Peihl, Clay County Historical Society,
202 1st Avenue N., Moorhead, MN 56560


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