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Bridge at Quebec, The by William Middleton Railroads Past & Present
Bridge at Quebec by William D. Middleton hard cover dust jacket
The Bridge at Quebec
William D. Middleton
Hard cover dust jacket
Rairloads Past and present
203 pages
Copyright 2001
Contents
Preface vii
Prologue: The Great River
Book One The First Bridge 5
1.A Bridge at the Narrowing 7
2.A Project at Last 24
3.The Engineers and the Bridge Builders 36
4.The Great Bridge Underway 45
5.Countdown to Disaster 69
6. Aftermath 87
Book Two The Second Bridge 103
7.Starting Over 105
8.Underway Again 117
9.Again, Disaster 151
io.Triumph at Last 161
Appendix A: Glossary 175
Appendix B: Sites for a Bridge at Quebec 177
Appendix C: Railway Lines Contiguous to the Quebec Bridge Site 178
Appendix D: The Conclusions of C. C. Schneider 180
Appendix E: Findings of the Royal Commission 181
Appendix F: The Two Bridges 183
Appendix G: Live Loadings Specifications 185
Notes 187
Bibliography 193
Index 199
In the mid-nineteenth century, the political and commercial leaders of the City of Quebec dreamed of a great bridge across the St. Lawrence River that would link their city with the new railway lines developing along the south shore, giving Quebec a competitive edge in its long struggle with Montreal for commercial dominance.
Today the Quebec Bridge stands firmly astride the St. Lawrence, safely carrying the commerce of Canada across its broad waters. No one has yet built a longer cantilever span, so the bridge still ranks as the greatest of its kind. Recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering as an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, and by the Canadian Government as a National Historic Site, the bridge today is in the midst of a $60 million renovation and restoration program. On October 2, 2001, exactly a century after the cornerstone-laying that marked the physical beginning of the long effort to build the bridge, supporters of the bridge will turn on a dramatic new lighting system that will
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