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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 256

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Side Hill Excavation along the Skeena River Owing 10 ihe steep character of the river bank heavy earthwork was re<iuisite to provide a pathfor ihe line, ihe soil as removed was shot into ihe water. … The Forest as the Railway Builder found it Owing to the denseness of the forest, and the size of the trees, clearing was a tremendous task.In this illustration the axemen are shown stripping the land of timber on the site of the rjilway line,5 aids, and port of Prince Rupert. A NARROW ESCAPE 219…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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