. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . se river, brought to light by avicious animal that kicked Sir JamesHector, and it was supposed that he waskilled and after recoverying sufficiently to is 3,000 ft. below and great snow coveredmountains, 6,000 ft. higher up on theother side. It is almost beyond the powerof man to describe this wonderful was so enchanted that I forgot the dayof the month and frequently the day ofthe week. The sun rose at 3 140 and youcould see to read a newspaper at 9:30 atnight. Vancouver, B. C, is a g
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . se river, brought to light by avicious animal that kicked Sir JamesHector, and it was supposed that he waskilled and after recoverying sufficiently to is 3,000 ft. below and great snow coveredmountains, 6,000 ft. higher up on theother side. It is almost beyond the powerof man to describe this wonderful was so enchanted that I forgot the dayof the month and frequently the day ofthe week. The sun rose at 3 140 and youcould see to read a newspaper at 9:30 atnight. Vancouver, B. C, is a great city; en-tirely destroyed by fire less than a quar-ter of century ago, it has been rebuiltand is now inhabited by nearly 65,000people. This is the end of the CanadianFacific Railway. The engine was nowrun on a transfer boat and was off onmy trip across Puget Sound to Lady-smith, B. C. I was then transferred tothe Esquimalt & Nanimo Railway, whichis operated by the C. P. R. I arrivedat Nanimo on Aug. 2, the end of myjourney. This is the great coal city onthe coast of Vancouver Island. They. NORTH BEND, B. C. ON THE RV. mine approximately 5,000 tons of thefinest steam coal in the world in one from all parts of the worldcome here for coal. The coal brings$, f. o. b. on the dock. The popula-tion is estimated at about 8,000. Theyhave no Great White Way there and October, 1908. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 429 no Singer Building and no Atlantic City,but they arc a contented and happy people. Money is plentiful and they spend itas if they got it easy. Twenty-live centsfor a shave and everything accordinglyhigh. After installing the locomotive, Ireturned by the way of Victoria, B. C,75 miles from Nanimo. It would be hardfor me to describe this great place inthis letter. Steamers sail from there toall parts of the world. Seattle is 80 milesaway. 1 took the steamer Princess Vic-toria for Vancouver, a beautiful sail of• 85 miles across Puget Sound.
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