. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. Track Laying Mach:on Canadian North-which has MadePossible a Mile ofJew Track EveryDay for FourteenYears The Trail of the Ax-men. Through thisBog a RailwayTrain will be Driven. Preparing to Break Camp—A Typical Scene in the Survey of a Railroad Popular Electricity and the Worlds Advance 1441 Modern machinery and long experi-ence have dampened down many of theold bogies of railroading. We take atunnel as just part of the days a railway hesitates to dig achannel through a mountain of rockwhen a nearby river bed offers a con-venient al
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. Track Laying Mach:on Canadian North-which has MadePossible a Mile ofJew Track EveryDay for FourteenYears The Trail of the Ax-men. Through thisBog a RailwayTrain will be Driven. Preparing to Break Camp—A Typical Scene in the Survey of a Railroad Popular Electricity and the Worlds Advance 1441 Modern machinery and long experi-ence have dampened down many of theold bogies of railroading. We take atunnel as just part of the days a railway hesitates to dig achannel through a mountain of rockwhen a nearby river bed offers a con-venient alternative. There must be astrong reason, such as occurred in thecase of the Rogers Pass tunnel on theC. P. B. for which a contract has beenlet for eight millions. Our Montrealtunnel cost us a million a mile, the workbeing carried through Mount Royalfrom opposite ends, the drills meetingin the center early in December. Carrying a line across the prairiesis simplicity itself to men who under-stand their work. In the hills, particu-larly through unbroken swampy coun-try with irregular ravines and uncer-tain river courses,—more so thanamongst mountains of great elevation—the survey engineer and the construc-tion eng
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