Tracks Across the Sky

Brilliant engineers overcame incredible obstacles to design it. Bold entrepreneurs found the funds to build it. And 100 brave workers, many of them immigrants, completed the job in 94 days. At 301 feet, the Kinzua Viaduct stood 24 feet taller and was completed a year ahead of the famous Brooklyn Bridge. But no one anticipated the tornado of 2003. Not even Octave Chanute, the engineer for the Erie Railroad who would later teach the Wright Brothers how to harness the wind. Premiered at American Public Television's Fall Marketplace in Miami. Now airing nationally on public television.