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 364
the secondparty to the bargain. This structure is about 712 feet inlength, consisting of four spans, each measuring 150 feet,and a short approach span at either end. Again, before theline of demarcation between the prairie and mountaindivisions is gained at Wolf Creek four huge bridges have tobe… … A RACE AGAINST TIME 305 has necessitated a structure 1530 feet in length. Projectingabove the waters of the river are seven large piers to sup-port eight spans of steel, of which five measure 225 feetapiece in length, one 150 feet long, with approach spans ateither end, the rail level being 71 feet…
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads
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