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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 166

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m.They have only been provided temporarily, owing tothe delay in securing the steel for the metallic structures.To have waited for this material would have thwartedconstruction very severely. The steel-work will be intro-duced over the waterways at leisure, the existing trestlingserving as… … Ferrying acr K1 \ E K To transport material across the deep, swiftly running, wide mountain rivers, the engineers have intro-duced current ferries, which are rectangular pontoons attached by a trolley to an overhead cable. Theriver current propels the craft, the ferry being turned at an angle so as…

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