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In the many tests cars were sent over the road at rates ranging from ten miles an hour to seventy - eight ; that speed burst being made by a car driven by Ralph de Palma , while another driver made seventy - one .
In the many tests cars were sent over the road at rates ranging from ten miles an hour to seventy - eight ; that speed burst being made by a car driven by Ralph de Palma , while another driver made seventy - one .
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The new line , including the tunnels , measures twelve miles between Hector and Field ; the old line but eight miles . But instead of the old grade of 4.5 per cent , a climb of 238 feet to the mile , the new tracks run over the crest at ...
The new line , including the tunnels , measures twelve miles between Hector and Field ; the old line but eight miles . But instead of the old grade of 4.5 per cent , a climb of 238 feet to the mile , the new tracks run over the crest at ...
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Grain from the prairie provinces will be shipped over this road in winter , stored in the elevators until the opening of navigation in June , carried across Hudson Bay , six hundred miles , through Hudson straits , five hundred miles ...
Grain from the prairie provinces will be shipped over this road in winter , stored in the elevators until the opening of navigation in June , carried across Hudson Bay , six hundred miles , through Hudson straits , five hundred miles ...
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