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 354
rilling fewminutes that were encountered among the mountainsfarther south. The track-layer was crawling round theshoulder of a big mountain. It was early spring, and thesnows had not all disappeared, though the days were warm.Suddenly above the din created by the machinery in motiona dull, strange… … =£ ■f. a. g-3« 5 5/ — 3— .O S >.ir (1 - vTS/: Cvi — O o o 2 n AN ANXIOUS MOMENT 297 and, what was worse, the track-layer lay right in its path.There was no time to back the train, so with a frantic yellhe stopped his machine, dropped down on the deck of thetruck, and pointing up the mountain to…
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads
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