The Railway Conquest of the World

Chapter 31: Transcriber’s Notes

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The book surveys the global spread and engineering of railways, recounting the adventurous work of surveyors and builders and the technical and logistical challenges faced in constructing major lines. It describes tunnelling and bridge-building, earthworks, and mechanized construction methods, and profiles landmark undertakings such as transcontinental routes, mountain passes, desert and polar reclamation projects, and lines across oceans and difficult terrains. Chapters examine regional developments in North and South America, Africa, Australasia, Siberia and the Far East, and explore ambitious schemes and their operational consequences, illustrated with accounts of construction camps, equipment, and the feats of civil engineering that made international railway networks possible.

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Rickard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Inconsistent appearance of page ranges was not changed.

Page 64: “Golden Horn” was printed that way, but it refers to the Golden Gate Strait in California; the Golden Horn is in Turkey.

Page 65: “’47” was printed that way, but gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in January, 1848.