. The making of a great Canadian railway ; the story of the search for and discovery of the route, and the construction 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 . Building a Wooden Trestle The upright members are disposed in rows of five, the outer log oneither side being set inwards at a slight angle. The whole are clampedtogether by iron dogs to secure solidity. The bent, as it is called, isgenerally twenty-five feet in The Stone-Boat For
. The making of a great Canadian railway ; the story of the search for and discovery of the route, and the construction 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 . Building a Wooden Trestle The upright members are disposed in rows of five, the outer log oneither side being set inwards at a slight angle. The whole are clampedtogether by iron dogs to secure solidity. The bent, as it is called, isgenerally twenty-five feet in The Stone-Boat For the removal of the rock as it is blasted out the stone-boat is used consists of a flat scoop hauled by a team of horses along a rough track consisting oftree-trunks laid on the ground in two parallel lines. The logs are faced roughly flat,and sometimes are greased to facilitate the movement of the curious vehicle. THE CASUALTY LIST 121 respect, but it resents strongly the rude treatment metedout by the rough-and-ready rock-hog. This is especiallythe case in winter. The thermometer dropping downto the sixties freezes the dynamite as readily almostas it congeals water. When the rock-hog finds this tohave occurred he merely proceeds to thaw out the dynamiteby placing it near the fire ! He knows only too well thatthereby the explosive is rendered a thousand times moredangerous, that thawing livens the agent extremelyand makes it intensely tender, but that does not matter :it is treated just as unceremoniously as when in the gripof frost. In the course of
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