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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 350

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t per year, merely for the satis-faction of renewals. The consumption of steel in the form of rails to providethe track upon this trans-continental railway also hasattained prodigious proportions. The rail length variesfrom 27 to 33 feet in length, the latter being that mostgenerally used on the… … THE TRACK-LAYER 293 yard rail, but investigations proved that the 80-pound railcould withstand the severe climatic and temperaturevariations to the most satisfactory degree. On the Govern-ment moiety of the undertaking 268,022 gross tons of railshave been used, while on the Grand Trunk Pacific…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Pacific railroads · Railroad engineering

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