. The street railway review . mers,which leave from this port weekly or fort-nightly forLiverpool, Glasgow, Hamburg, Antwerp, Havre, whiletramp steamers also abound, together with a great manyriver lines. BRIDGES. Two types of bridge across the St. Lawrence attractattention, because of their length, the apparent diflicul-ties that had to be overcome in their construction, andthe difference in design. The first bridge was built bythe Grand Trunk Railway in i860. It was opened forpublic use in 1861, on the occasion of the Prince of Walesonly visit to his possession, for Canada is his specialprop
. The street railway review . mers,which leave from this port weekly or fort-nightly forLiverpool, Glasgow, Hamburg, Antwerp, Havre, whiletramp steamers also abound, together with a great manyriver lines. BRIDGES. Two types of bridge across the St. Lawrence attractattention, because of their length, the apparent diflicul-ties that had to be overcome in their construction, andthe difference in design. The first bridge was built bythe Grand Trunk Railway in i860. It was opened forpublic use in 1861, on the occasion of the Prince of Walesonly visit to his possession, for Canada is his specialproperty. In honor of the queen, it was called Victoriabridge. It is of the tubular type, two miles in length,supported on 24 piers, the central span being 330 feet c^tA^lJ^mkay^^&ylW 593 long, the others 242 feet. It is 60 feet above the ordin-ary river level, and the tube is 22 feet high by 16 cost was $6,300,000. The Canadian Pacific bridge at Lachine, seven milesabove the city, was completed in 1887. It shows the. CANADIAN PACIFIC BRIDGE. advance that had been made in bridge engineering intwenty-seven years. It is of the suspension type, andoffers much less resistance to the wind than Victoriabridge. There are two abutments and 15 piers, four landspans 80feet long. The deep portion of the river is crossedby two flanking spans of 270 feet, and two cantileverspans, each 408 feet long. These latter spans have anelevation 60 feet above summer water level, and formone continuous truss 1,356 feet long. The cost was over$1,000,000.
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