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 336
of scouring are entertained. It is fartoo massively and solidly constructed for that. Where themountain flanks have been traversed the rails rest on solidrock, and as the submerged bank on the water-side is in-tegral with the mountain, undermining is impossible. Theembankments across the indents… … a rt -J Jg w c U J= cl >, u u-O a - 0 2; ttj * □.<« J f, f= kl u 0 S2 X u u ■^^ 0 I. « - « ^ •^ J= 01 Z rtic Ui < 0:r u ^ ■•J «s-. H -5 5i Beu 3 CRIB-WORK 286 current to preserve their original character intact. Thegrade has been pronounced by engineers as one of the mostsolidly…
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads
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