Canadian engineer . s undoubtedly also one of its great*csi handicaps. It is not possible for any one to conceive ofthe city growing over the mountain, and consequently thelatitude for growth had been always limited from that residences of its citizens may flank it but the limitedspeed of its surface traction line does not make this verydesirable. The danger of congestion, for that reason becamesteadily more imminent. When the first hint of the Montreal programme by running into many millions was flashed over the wiresto the inhabitants of that city, speculation and curiosit
Canadian engineer . s undoubtedly also one of its great*csi handicaps. It is not possible for any one to conceive ofthe city growing over the mountain, and consequently thelatitude for growth had been always limited from that residences of its citizens may flank it but the limitedspeed of its surface traction line does not make this verydesirable. The danger of congestion, for that reason becamesteadily more imminent. When the first hint of the Montreal programme by running into many millions was flashed over the wiresto the inhabitants of that city, speculation and curiosity wereborn. But it is safe to say that no citizen of the eastern citydreamed even of the undertaking which is now taking shapefor an entrance through the mountain. The problem wasdiscussed in clubs, hotels, on the streets, and in every placewhere people congregate. It was, of course, impossible forthe executives of the Canadian Northern to announce the be-ginning and the end of the Montreal scheme, for the difficul-. A View of Montreal Harbor. Railway engineers have set themselves to solve is really thebiggest to confront any railway in any city in Canada. The tunnel idea of an entrance had always, in the past,been accepted as but a remote possibility by the averagerailway engineer. True, the subject has probably been oftendiscussed in the executive councils of other roads, but thething seemed so stupendous an undertaking that it neveradvanced to the detailed stage, and the railways were quitecontent to do the best they could with the facilities they Canadian Northern, however, fresh from the conquestof the western prairie, and with the determination born of atranscontinental idea urging on its men, faced the difficultynot with the impossible impression, but with the solid con-viction that a tunnel was the only proper solution to theproblem of an entrance into the heart of the city of Mont-real. Mount Royal, while one of the citys most splendidassets, and prominent in C
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