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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 368

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MuSKEli-FlLLER AT WoRK The above tool is a kind of scraper carried at the front end of a long; four-wheeledcarriage. The mules are harnessed on either side of the beam connecting the front andrear pairs of wheels, and push the material scraped up by the forward edge to the spotwhere filling is… … Setting the Bridge Span in the Battle River Viaduct This part of the structure was erected by scaffolding, the river being crossed in asingle span. The support on either side is carried upon a solid masonry pier. Atthis point the rail \i i8o feet above the water-level. A TRAGIC EPISODE 307 level…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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