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Title: Railway and Locomotive Engineering
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ic flyers, of whichthere are a large number in service onthe road. The equipment generally is ofthe best, and the perfect working of theroad with its rapidly growing trafTic, andits almost complete freedom from seriousaccidents in a country abounding with for, we would not care to venture anopinion. Suffice it to say that the Inter-colonial is a model in its way, from whichmany larger roads might well take manylessons. There are now nearly 1,700 miles ofroad in operation of the standard 4 ft. SAins. gauge, with 397 locomotives, 447 pas-senger cars, and 12.025 freight and mis-cellaneous cars. There are also 78 snow among picturesque French-Canadianvillages, after which the romantic andbeautiful scenic wonders of the mountain-ous districts is passed until Dalhousie onChalein Bay is reached. Here the greatmoose hunting and big game territory be-gins. A string of thriving towns has re-cently sprung up all along the roadthrough Xew Brunswick. At Monctonthe strange tidal phenomenon known as
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THE OCEAN LIMITED BETWEEN MONTREAL, ST. JOHN AND HALIFAX INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY OF CANADA.
great natural difficulties in railro.id c<m-struction and maintenance, together withfrequent severe climatic conditions, arcexcellent illustrations of the success ofgovernmental management of a railroad.Whether the same success coulfl be ob-tained under government control in theUnited States, with its ever changingkaleidoscope of political parties and fac-tions, whose leaders must be provided plows occasionally in service. There arcalso many steamer connections for hun-dreds of miles, the road traversing tlicmost varied and inviting scenery. Starting at Montreal, the Intercolonialcrosses the Victoria Jubilee Bridge on the-St. Lawrence, and takes the shortest routeto Quebec which is full of historic interest.Passing along the southern shore of theSt. Lawrence the road makes its way een. and forni.sof tlii? iiii- llu- Bore is firstmarkabic featurcountry. \i.ar Moncton is Pointwlurc steamers conn

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