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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 138

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Building a Wooden Trestle The upright members are disposed in rows of five, the outer log oneither side being set inwards at a slight angle. The whole are clampedtogether by iron dogs to secure solidity. The bent, as it is called, isgenerally twenty-five feet in height. … The Stone-Boat For the removal of the rock as it is blasted out the stone-boat is used extensively.It consists of a flat scoop hauled by a team of horses along a rough track consisting oftree-trunks laid on the ground in two parallel lines. The logs are faced roughly flat,and sometimes are greased…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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