. . ^ trainmore than a few hours. This great work was accomplished bypersonal supervision and a system so thorough that no otherinstance has been recorded of a distance of four hundred andtwenty miles of main line having been changed in its gaugewithin eight hours, as was done between Montreal and Stratford;and in the district east of Montreal the work was as quickly andsuccessfully E. P. HAXXAFORD. Audit O^ce. 171 Mr. Hannaford was also the Chief Engineer of the Interna-tional Bridge across the Niagara Eiver, between Buf
. . ^ trainmore than a few hours. This great work was accomplished bypersonal supervision and a system so thorough that no otherinstance has been recorded of a distance of four hundred andtwenty miles of main line having been changed in its gaugewithin eight hours, as was done between Montreal and Stratford;and in the district east of Montreal the work was as quickly andsuccessfully E. P. HAXXAFORD. Audit O^ce. 171 Mr. Hannaford was also the Chief Engineer of the Interna-tional Bridge across the Niagara Eiver, between Buffalo in theState of New York, and Fort Erie in the Dominion of is the only bridge that has ever been constructed with piersfounded in that river, and its success financially and as anengineering achievement has been a matter of general congra -tulation. Mr. Hannaford entered the service of the Grand TrunkKailway in 1857, being employed for a short time by the con-tractors in the work of construction. In 1858 he joined thepermanent staff of the Company and worked his way, withoutinfluence, to the head of the Engineering Department. His early associations are connected with such men as theate Mr. William Froude, and he had many years of field-workand engineering construction before he came to this country. 172 Railway8 and Other Ways. CHAPTER XY. THE ST. CLAIR TUNNEL. The St. Clair, at Sarnia, is the most fickle of all rivers, thestreng
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