Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I

THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. 267 one box of bolts. The sleepers were loaded on to carts and taken ahead on the dump, distributed, spaced, and lined well ahead of the track-layers. In order to unload the rails the train was backed up to the end of the track, and the rails then thrown off the cars, fifteen pairs on each side. The engine then drew off, and the fifteen pairs were loaded on Quick Station Building. stations. “ The station buildings were erected by a series of gangs of workmen following each other. The first gang put up the framing, joisting, and rafters, etc. ; the second put on the sheeting, flooring, and roofing ; and they were followed by the plas- terers, joiners, and painters. As each gang SECTION GANG BALLASTING TRACK ON A PRAIRIE DIVISION. {Photo, H. E. Brittain.} to a trolley drawn by horses, together with the necessary fish-plates, bolts, and spikes. When the trolley reached the last laid rail, a pair of rails was dropped, gauged, and the trolley run forward over them. A gang followed to affix the fish-plates, and was in turn succeeded by the spikers. When the load was finished, tho trolley was thrown off the rails to make place for another. The speed with which the work was done is admirably illustrated in the building of the finished its particular class of work it moved westward, by which arrangement four or five stations were being built at the same time, and each gang got through its own division of labour in time to allow the next one to come on. There were no delays or hitches in the work. The station-house gangs began work 125 miles behind the track-layers, and caught them up at the end of the season.” The headquarters of the constructional de- partment were never more than 100 miles