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 192
nstinct, were merely toldby their chief that they were not to exceed a four-tenths grade, it is not surprising that they were somewhatamazed. Argument was useless. It was of no avail to saythat such an undertaking would cost millions to accom-plish. That was a question for the controlling spirit… … u 3 — o Ji 0^ B O I- C c j= rt.S i o a-- 2 j.c -3 1) 1) *J W U -y. A MAN OF FEW WORDS 163 exacting tasks that has ever been imposed upon a railway-building spy. The party was in charge of one of the mostaccomplished railway surveyors in the west, Mr. C. C. VanArsdoll, who has been associated with…
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads
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