. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . kirk Range, will shortly have to seek otherquarters. Besides necessitating about 18 miles ofnew track, the tunnel project involved,in its preliminary stages, a 900,000-cu. in the centre of the Illecillewaet Rivervalley, extending westward for a distanceof \y2 miles. Between this fill and thew-est portal there is a 300,000-cu. yd. cut,the entrance being at a level of about 80feet below the ground surface. In the eastend there is another approach cut ofabout 100,000 cu. yd. The work, co
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . kirk Range, will shortly have to seek otherquarters. Besides necessitating about 18 miles ofnew track, the tunnel project involved,in its preliminary stages, a 900,000-cu. in the centre of the Illecillewaet Rivervalley, extending westward for a distanceof \y2 miles. Between this fill and thew-est portal there is a 300,000-cu. yd. cut,the entrance being at a level of about 80feet below the ground surface. In the eastend there is another approach cut ofabout 100,000 cu. yd. The work, commenced in June, 1914,will probably be completed in September,1916, several months before the timestipulated. It is being carried out underthe direction of Mr. J. G. Sullivan, ChiefEngineer of Western Lines for theCanadian Pacific Railway. Mr. H. is the engineer-in-charge. The cost of this improvement alone willexceed $12,000,000. The new electrically-operated, double-track swing bridge, built by the CanadianPacific Railway over the Lachine Canal, inthe Province of Quebec, on the St. Law-. THE CHANNEL SPANS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER BRIDGE. It is 2,890 feet long and the grade pro-duces a difference in elevation of about43 feet at the two portals. Thus the roadnow traverses the valley by three linesat different elevations. It crosses and re-crosses the river by four bridges. Theimprovement further necessitated thedriving of a 170-foot tunnel, this one ona tangent, before connecting with theold line near Field. With the gradients nel in America. This tunnel will befinished during the present year. TheSelkirk tunnel may be considered anadequate winding-up of vast expendituresand enormous engineering undertakingswhich the company has carried out witha view to perfecting the alignment andgrade of its road both east and west of thegreat wheat fields of the Dominion. Thetunnel will bring down the summit eleva- rence River, is a triumph for Canadianengineering, and of particul
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