Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . , was made up as fol-lows: Locomotives, 2,255; first andsecond class passenger cars, baggagecars, and colonist sleeping cars, 2,183;firt class sleeping, dining and cafe cars,498;parlor cars, official, and paymasterscars, 100; freight and cattle cars, allkinds, 87,108; conductors vans, 1,420;boarding, tool and auxiliary cars, andsteam shovels, 6,867. Of the first andsecond class passenger cars, baggage,and colonist sleeping cars, 12 on the and Boston line, 14 on the Montrealand Boston line, and 19 on the Toronto,Hamilton, and Bu
Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . , was made up as fol-lows: Locomotives, 2,255; first andsecond class passenger cars, baggagecars, and colonist sleeping cars, 2,183;firt class sleeping, dining and cafe cars,498;parlor cars, official, and paymasterscars, 100; freight and cattle cars, allkinds, 87,108; conductors vans, 1,420;boarding, tool and auxiliary cars, andsteam shovels, 6,867. Of the first andsecond class passenger cars, baggage,and colonist sleeping cars, 12 on the and Boston line, 14 on the Montrealand Boston line, and 19 on the Toronto,Hamilton, and Buffalo line, are outsideowned to the extent of , , per cent, respectively. Revenue From Land Owned Naturally with the settlement that hastaken place in Western Canada, duringthe past two decades or less, the landreceived when construction of the roadwas undertaken has become a very ma-terial source of revenue, and as a com-paratively trifling amount of the landthen received has so far passed out ofthe companys control, it will be apnar-. WINDSOR STREET STATION, MONTREAL. 10 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume XVIII. the Western Hemisphere. The length isabout 5 miles. The work was perform-ed in two and a half years, constitutinga worlds record. The number of menemployed was about 600. The Con-naught Tunnel to the means theelimination of several miles of snow-sheds, reduction of distance connectingrailway points, also making effective abig grade reduction. The cost of theundertaking was $6,500,000. The amountof material taken from the bore was ap-proximately 750,000 cubic yards, weigh-ing in round figures over 1,500,000 of the centre portion of the borewas through solid rock. Previous to this achievement, thelongest railway tunnel on the AmericanContinent was the Hoosac Tunnel, 4%miles long, on the New York CentralRailway line. The work of the Con-naught Tunnel began in January 1914and progressed steadily until comple-tion. An interesting feature o
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