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Tunnel Tales The St Clair Tunnel 1891-1991 by Wanda Pratt Soft COver
Tunnel Tales The St Clair Tunnel 1891-1991 by Wanda Pratt
Soft Cover Stapled
55 pages
Copyright 1988
CONTENTS
1 Completion 1
2 Tunnel Company 4
3 Payments and Plaques 6
4 Engineering 8
5 Workers 19
6 Mechanics 22
7 Locomotives 28
8 Electric Power 32
9 Sabotage 35
10 Tragedies 39
11 Unusual Events 51
12 Centennial Celebration 52
TABLE OF PHOTOS
The Port Huron Tunnel II
Train Decorated for Opening Day VI
Engineering Drawings 8
Courtesy of Oil Museum of Canada, Oil Springs, Ontario.
Steam Shovels Digging Tunnel Cut 11
Shield Being Assembled 13
Shield Being Rolled Into Place 16
Model of Inside of Shield and Tunnel 18
Petition for Higher Wages 21
Close-up of Shield Being Rolled Into Place 25
Sarnia Railway Station 26
Port Huron Railway Station 26
Original Steam Engine 27
Steam & Electric Engines 27
Walter D. Hall 34
Sarnia Portal and Pumphouse 38
Port Huron Portal and Pumphouse 38
Medals of Bravery 50
Steam Engine Exiting Tunnel 51
Tunnel Workers 53
Monument to Joseph Hobsen 54
Fold Out Map Center of Book
EARLY SARNIA
As described in the Grand Trunk Railway Gazetteer 1889
"A station on the Sarnia branch and an incorporated town beautifully situated on the St. Clair River in the township of Sarnia, county of Lambton, of which it is the county town.
Connections here are made with the C & GRRY and Flint & D Ry By ferry to Port Huron. It contains banks, 8 churches, 4 Public and High Schools, CPR & GNW, telegraph, telephone and express companies have offices here.
Street cars to Point Edward, two miles north. Daily stages to Corunna, Courtwright, Moore, Sombra, Pt. Lambton, and Wallaceburg. Steamboats for all Points on the Great Lakes call here. Population is about 7,600."
This small but bustling community was about to embark on one of the biggest engineering projects in the world. Its story is the subject of this book.
An illustrated history of the building of the St. Clair Rail Tunnel that runs between Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan. This was the first international underwater rail tunnel in the world when it was built in 1891. Many photos, diagrams and stories of the builders are included in "Tunnel Tales".
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