The making of a great Canadian railway; the story of the search for and discovery of the search for and discovery of the route, and the constru ction of the nearly completed Grand trunk Pacific railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country
A 1912 popular account of building the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway across Canada, written by British journalist Frederick A. Talbot and published in London by Seeley, Service & co. for general readers interested in engineering feats. The 44 halftone photographs show fresh embankments, trestles and steel bridges, rock cuts, cleared forest and survey camps, useful for coarse-grained grey landscape textures and receding track geometry.
