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The making of a great Canadian railway ; the story of the search for and discovery of the route, and the construction 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 (1912)

Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880- · Toronto, Musson Book Co. · leaf 130

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Building the Battle River Viaduct This is the largest metallic structure between Winnipeg and the Pacific,beingii mileslonebv i8ofeet high in the centre. It crosses the river and the valley of the samename The overhead traveller is seen setting one of the bents or tower-pieces in namposition … A Sink in the Grade At places, owing to the soft character of the ground, the embankment settled down in a mass for adepth of thirty feet or more. Then the grade had to be built up again on a mattress of tree-logsand branches woven together.

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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