Article tracing history of construction of overland railroads across Rocky Mountains; Pacific railroad surveys; directions to surveyors; railway routes across Rocky Mountains; routes from Mexican border to and including Northern Pacifis; information about Rocky Mountain passes that have never been used by railway; discovery of Marias Pass for Great Northern line; description of Canadian Pacific line through Kicking Horse Pass, and Canadian National through Yellowhead. (See also - n 2 Feb 1940 p 97-9, n 3 Mar p 161-4)
Continental divide
Civ Eng (NY)
Civil Engineering (New York) ; 10 , n 4
1940
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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