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
served to tempt Fate. Familiaritybreeds contempt is a well-worn axiom, and when it isassociated with such an agent as dynamite, the resultinvariably is somewhat disastrous to everyone in thevicinity of the spot where the adage is subjected to thetest. These men are so accustomed to handling… … 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.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads
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