Railways And Other Ways Being Reminiscences of Canal And Railway Life During a
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Sir Joseph Hickson forwarded to us in London a survey of the river by Mr. Walter Shanly, and on seeing it I at once realized that the position of the present tunnel was one that could best be utilized. Firstly, there was clay at the bottom, and on both sides of the river. Secondly, the width and depth of the river were moderate. Third- ly, it was the point where the Sarnia branch of the Grand Trunk Eailway and the Chicago & Grand Trunk come to opposite sides of the river. I remembered Mr. Peter... Barlow's smaller tunnel under the Thames, constructed for ^620, 000 — through clay — 84 years ago, and the same principle of the shield had been employed in America, and was again being applied under the Thames, for a tunnel ten feet in diameter. The Grand Trunk board approved of the construction of a tunnel in this locality, and I suggested to Sir Joseph Hickson the employment of Mr. Hobson as the engineer. ' "Sir Henry then went into a history of the tunnel difficulties, and told how hard the work had been, ending by proposing the health of Mr.
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