[Ads-l] _viaduct_ "overpass"

[Herb Stahlke]

I thought it was viadock.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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