The making of a great Canadian railway; the story of the search for and discovery of the search for and discovery of the route, and the constru ction 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- · London : Seeley, Service & co. limited · leaf 132
e proportions—the whole line for 100 yards or more was thrown intoconfusion. This was one of the unexpected factors whichthe builders were doomed to encounter. Then the engineerhad to ponder deeply. The only thing he could do wasto keep on dumping until the subsidence ceased, butthe great point was… … A Sink in the Grade At places, owing to the soft character of the ground, ihe embankmtnt settled down in a mass for adepth of thirty feet or more. Then the grade had to be built up again on a mattress of tree-logsand branches woven together.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Pacific railroads · Railroad engineering
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