[Ads-l] _viaduct_ "overpass"

[Wilson Gray]

Caption of a photo in Wikipedia:

An eastbound Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Railroad_Association_of_St._Louis>
freight
train passing under the Hampton Avenue _viaduct_.

I had no idea that "viaduct"  was used by _white_ St. Louisans, too, as the
word for "overpass." Jim Crow worked!
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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