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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 338

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of scouring are entertained. It is fartoo massively and solidly constructed for that. Where themountain flanks have been traversed the rails rest on solidrock, and as the submerged bank on the water-side is in-tegral with the mountain, undermining is impossible. Theembankments across the indents… … CRIB-WORK 285 current to preserve their original character intact. Thegrade has been pronounced by engineers as one of the mostsoHdly constructed on the American Continent, and onealso of indisputable permanency, while INIr. Stewart ad-mitted to me that it constitutes the finest piece of work…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Pacific railroads · Railroad engineering

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