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Title: 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
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880-
Subjects: Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company Pacific railroads Railroad engineering
Publisher: London : Seeley, Service & co. limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he Bush . . . .138 Ferrying across the MacLeod River . . .140 The Eastern Entrance to the Rockv Mountains . 140 13 14 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAOK A Gigantic Grain Elevatok .... 144 Massive Steel Bridge Across the South Saskatchewan River ...... 158 The Ribbon of Steel through the Cascades . . 162 A Railway Construction Camp .... 184 Approaching the Main Range of the Rocky Moun-tains ....... 194 Tete Jaune Cache ..... 204 Side Hill Excavations along the Skeena River . 218 The Forest as the Railway Builder found it .218 Railway Construction along the Skeena River . 236 Surveyors Moving Camp ..... 256 Station Men at Work .... 256 A Marvel of Railway Engineering . . . 268 Railway Construction Steamer on the Skeena River 270 The Engineers Conquest of the Cascade Mountains . 278 The Railway Builders Heavy Artillery . . 282 Laying the Track by Machinery . . . 282 Ready for Traffic. A Finished Stretch of Line . 284 The Bulkley River Gorge .... 2^ The Passage of the Track-layer . . . 292
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Building the Battle River Viaduct This is the largest metallic structure between Winnipeg and the Pacific,being i^ mileslong by iSofeet high in the centre. It crofses the river and the valley of the samename. The overhead traveller is seen setting one of the bents or tower-pieces inposition. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 15 FACING PAGE A Land Slide ...... 296 Building the Clover Bar Bridge . . . 304) Muskeg-filler at Work ..... 306 Setting the Bridge Span in the Battle River Viaduct 306Preparing one Shore End of the Clover Bar Bridge 308The Loftiest Bridge East of the Rocky Mountains . 310 THE MAKING OF A GEEATCANADIAN KAIL WAY CHAPTER I THE BIRTH OF THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY THE dawn of the twentieth century saw the Dominionof Canada on the crest of a huge wave of pros-perity. The north-west was in the grip of a boom, forthe potentiaHties of the great j^rairies, stretching away inan ahnost unbroken expanse from the eastern borders ofManitoba to the Rocky Mountains, had become realisedwmakingofgreatcan00talb

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