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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 332

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The Railway Builders Heavy Artillery The steam shovel i< one of the constructional engineers most usefulweapons. The toothei bucket scrapes up the side of the hill and removesabout three tons of material with every bite. … Laying the Track by Machinery across ihe Prairie By this wonderful apparatus the sleepers are discharged on the grade in a continuousstream and by means of crowbars, ad^es, and axes are pulled and laid in position.The rails are likewise lifted from the trucks behind and lowered upon the wooden bed.…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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