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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 370

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it has a toy-like appearance, and the menengaged in painting the steel resemble flies. As one de-scends the winding high road leading from the top of thehill to the water-level a magnificent broadside view of theviaduct is obtained. The latticed steel columns resting onthe solid concrete pedestals,… … MUSKKG-FlI.LEK AT WORK The above tool is a kind of scraper carried at the front end of a Ion? 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…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Pacific railroads · Railroad engineering

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