. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . A50 SHED IN THE MOUNTAINS. lines which pass over the Rocky Moun-tains, is that the coast or Pacific slopeis steeper than that of the eastern roughly, the profile of thishighway in the northland resembles ina general way the sky line of MountRundle, at Banff, B. C, the steep andabrupt declivity approximating to thecoast side of the mountains and thegentler slope to that which stretchesaway to the prairies. Many years agothe gradual ascent of the eastern slopefrom the prairie beca
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . A50 SHED IN THE MOUNTAINS. lines which pass over the Rocky Moun-tains, is that the coast or Pacific slopeis steeper than that of the eastern roughly, the profile of thishighway in the northland resembles ina general way the sky line of MountRundle, at Banff, B. C, the steep andabrupt declivity approximating to thecoast side of the mountains and thegentler slope to that which stretchesaway to the prairies. Many years agothe gradual ascent of the eastern slopefrom the prairie became the subject ofdiscussion between the U. S. Govern-ment engineers and those of the UnionPacific Railroad. By agreement, this. SPLIT FENCE PLACED IN THE TR.\CK OF A SLIDE. from a gun or the steam from a loco-motive, and as you watch you see itgradually gaining headway and speedas it dashes down the steep slopes, in- trees and clears the slope entirely ofroots, stumps and loose rock andsweeps them down into the valley be-low, and oftentimes it throws them A BRITISH COLUMBIAN. road was to receive $16,000 a mile forthe construction of the prairie treble that amount for the moun-tain section. At length the construc-tion, engineers found themselves atSherman, then the highest railway sum-mit in the world, without having drawnany extra subsidy for mountain workA controversy with the government en-gineers followed as to where the moun-tain section commenced, and a point inthe vicinity of Cheyenne was finally March, 1906. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 99 agreed upon as the place wlicre grades began. There was notmuch difference in the character of thework while ascending the eastern slope
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