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Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, THE IMPERIAL LIMITED MAIL, : No, 840, 4-6-0. THE TRANS-CONTINENTALS i6i ocean to ocean upon their own metals, and the linefrom Buenos Ayres over the Andes is too short tocompare with our great link in the north. In addition to the ocean to ocean track, theCanadian Pacific Kailway controls another 10,000miles of line, and every day more than anothermile is added; and on the immense system arenearly 1500 locomotives, 50,000 freight cars, andover 2000 passenger vehicles. It is estimatedthat if all the freight cars were loaded up at onetime, the carrying capacity would be equivalentto the weight of the whole population of England. The mileage of the trains totals up to 35 millionmiles; the freight trains carry 15 million tons ;and the passengers number 10 millions annually.This last at first glance appears very small, but wemust remember that the population of Canada isonly 7 millions, and when a Canadian does travel,his average will exceed the 9 J miles, which a

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