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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 146

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The Quebfx Bridge Before the Accident This structure spanning the St. Lawrence was to be the largest cantilever bridge inthe world, with a main span of 1800 feet, and the rails 150 feet above the water. Some800 feet of the main span had been constructed when the whole fabric collapsed. … The Quebec Bridge After the Accident About 18,000 tons of steel had been set in position when through the failure of abottom rib of steel near the pier the whole mass settled upon itself into the river.Seventy-four workmen lost their lives in this calamity. A new bridge is now in courseof erection…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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