. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ese cities, theaverage speed is about 30^ miles anhour. This train leaves Halifax at15:50 oclock. Atlantic time, which issun time for the 60th meridian west running time on the westbound Intercolonial time tables are allmade out on the 24-hour system, inwhich the A. M. and P. M. notationhas po place. Our frontispiece illus-tration shows the Maritime Expressbowling along on a high embankment 278 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING July, 1908. from which a view of the beautifulWentworth
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ese cities, theaverage speed is about 30^ miles anhour. This train leaves Halifax at15:50 oclock. Atlantic time, which issun time for the 60th meridian west running time on the westbound Intercolonial time tables are allmade out on the 24-hour system, inwhich the A. M. and P. M. notationhas po place. Our frontispiece illus-tration shows the Maritime Expressbowling along on a high embankment 278 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING July, 1908. from which a view of the beautifulWentworth Valley is seen. The pointwhere the photograph was taken, show-ing the powerful ten-wheeler with itssix coaches, happens to be the highestpoint on the Intercolonial with the ex-ception of the summit beyond Mata-pedia. The writer remembers with keen de-light the beauty of that fair could exceed the exquisiteglow of early light one summer morn-ing after a night of test work onthe engine of a westbound freight. Thelight, gray at first, slowly beat backthe night and made the gauge lamps. THROn;il THE FAMED MAT APE1UA VALLEY. The Ancient Capital, as Quebec iscalled, is still French. The hand oftime has swept away the ruins of PortRoyal and grass grows over what wasonce the well-nigh impregnable Louis-burg, but Quebec remains, and will re-main the Niobe of the cities of Francein the Western World. Opposite Ri-viere du Loup, is the famous old Ta-dousac, the most ancient Europeansettlement in Canada and perhaps inAmerica. Tadousac is close beside themouth of the Sagueney, whose watersflow into the St. Lawrence, betweentwo mountainous masses of Trinity, on one side with itsthree rounded domes high up aloft, andon the other side, the mighty wall ofrock, Cape Eternity, with its sheer dropof 2,000 li 1 I Campbellton, where the time on therailway changes, is on the south sideof the boundary river, the Restigouche,between the Provinces of Quebec andNew Brunswick.
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