The Technical World Magazine, Volume 17Technical World Company, 1912 |
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Page 6
... supplies , were got across and the line started on north- ward through the ensuing canyons . Meanwhile the great piers were fin- ished and in the autumn of 1909 the steel began to move forward from the East . It was not until late in ...
... supplies , were got across and the line started on north- ward through the ensuing canyons . Meanwhile the great piers were fin- ished and in the autumn of 1909 the steel began to move forward from the East . It was not until late in ...
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... SUPPLIES UP THE LOWER END OF THE COPPER RIVER AHEAD OF TRACK LAYING . This is most arduous and quite often very dangerous work . the preliminary survey he then made . Even with that the eminent specialists stuck to their opinion ...
... SUPPLIES UP THE LOWER END OF THE COPPER RIVER AHEAD OF TRACK LAYING . This is most arduous and quite often very dangerous work . the preliminary survey he then made . Even with that the eminent specialists stuck to their opinion ...
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... supply men pushed forward , the completed line was being raised several feet above the delta level . Today that whole stretch of forty miles is an hour's pleasant run over a roadbed that equals almost any in the East and through a ...
... supply men pushed forward , the completed line was being raised several feet above the delta level . Today that whole stretch of forty miles is an hour's pleasant run over a roadbed that equals almost any in the East and through a ...
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... supplies to feed then selves . Meanwhile a wagonload was being driven through the heavy brush and over sandhills and swamps along the right - of- way and tough western horses were being brought over the flats to do the hauling . Just ...
... supplies to feed then selves . Meanwhile a wagonload was being driven through the heavy brush and over sandhills and swamps along the right - of- way and tough western horses were being brought over the flats to do the hauling . Just ...
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... Supplies must be kept on the move . It was planned to lay temporary tracks across the river on the ice , but the chang- ing weather kept such a depth of water and slush on its rough surface that even the tough Alaskan horses could not ...
... Supplies must be kept on the move . It was planned to lay temporary tracks across the river on the ice , but the chang- ing weather kept such a depth of water and slush on its rough surface that even the tough Alaskan horses could not ...
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