. 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. j:-:::::^—r—nrr j / i:/|, /(]/!: GRAND TRUNK NEW DOUBLE-TRACK STEKL-ARCH BRIDGE, AT NIAGARA merits on either bank springs a steel arch, spanning the gorge, with itshighest point 226 feet above tlie water. The span between the piers is550 feet, and a trussed span at each end 115 feet long connects th
. 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. j:-:::::^—r—nrr j / i:/|, /(]/!: GRAND TRUNK NEW DOUBLE-TRACK STEKL-ARCH BRIDGE, AT NIAGARA merits on either bank springs a steel arch, spanning the gorge, with itshighest point 226 feet above tlie water. The span between the piers is550 feet, and a trussed span at each end 115 feet long connects the archwith the bluff. The total length of the bridge with its approaches is over1,100 feet. It has two decks or floors, the upper one, thirty feet wide, occupied by the double trackof the Grand Trunk Railway, thelower comprising a broad carriage-way in the center, and footwalksoutside of all, making a total widthof fifty-seven feet. The sustaining strength of thestructure is enormous, and thedoubts and fears which timid pas-sengers could never quite subdueconcerning the old bridge are noweffectually banished by the solid-ity of this structure with its sixmillion pounds of steel. The en-tire bridge was fashioned by thePennsylvania Bridge Conipan}-, intheir shops at Steelton, Pa., andshipped in sections, the ribs of tliemain arch being in twenty-five tonsections. On removing the old
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