. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. and daring, and for many years it has been justly regarded as one of the great bridgesof the world. It was opened for traffic in 1855, and has therefore done service for more thanforty years. The original bridge had wooden trusses suspended on stone towers, and in 1880the suspended structure was changed to
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. and daring, and for many years it has been justly regarded as one of the great bridgesof the world. It was opened for traffic in 1855, and has therefore done service for more thanforty years. The original bridge had wooden trusses suspended on stone towers, and in 1880the suspended structure was changed to steel, the stone towers giving place to steel six yearslater. The length of the bridge between towers was 822 feet, and the height of the the was 2;S f^.-t fLike many another marvel, this great1 iridge has become only a , giv-I . iiig place to the steel-arch structure 1 >ho«-n on the following page. This new I iridge is no less a remarkable engineer-ing feat than was the old, especially in\ iew of the fact that its entire construc-tion, including the removal of the , was accomplished without of traffic. The engraving gives a good generalidea of the bridge and the principles in-volved in its construction. From abut-.
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