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A Sharp Curve--Manhattan Elevated Railway, 110th Street, New York 7

A Steep Grade on a Mountain Railroad 8

A Switchback 9

Plan of Big Loop 10

Profile of the Same 10

Engineers in Camp 14

Royal Gorge Hanging Bridge, Denver and Rio Grande, Colorado 16

Veta Pass, Colorado 17

Sections of Snow-sheds 18

Making an Embankment 21

Steam Excavator 21

Building a Culvert 22

Building a Bridge Abutment 22

Rock Drill 23

A Construction and Boarding Train 24

Bergen Tunnels, Hoboken, N. J. 25

Beginning a Tunnel 26

Old Burr Wooden Bridge 28

Kinzua Viaduct; Erie Railway 30

Kinzua Viaduct 31

View of Thomas Pope's Proposed Cantilever 34

Pope's Cantilever in Process of Erection 35

General View of the Poughkeepsie Bridge 36

Erection of a Cantilever 37

Spiking the Track 38

Track Laying 41

Temporary Railway Crossing the St. Lawrence on the Ice 44

View Down the Blue from Rocky Point, Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad; showing successive tiers of railway 49

Denver and Rio Grande Railway Entering the Portals of the Grand River Ca?on, Colorado 54

The Kentucky River Cantilever, on the Cincinnati Southern Railway 55

Truss over Ravine, and Tunnel, Oroya Railroad, Peru 56

The Nochistongo Cut, Mexican Central Railway 57

The Mount Washington Rack Railroad 58

Trestle on Portland and Ogdensburg Railway, Crawford Notch, White Mountains 58

A Series of Tunnels 59

Tunnel at the Foot of Mount St. Stephen, on the Canadian Pacific 60

Pe?a de Mora on the La Guayra and Car?cas Railway, Venezuela 61

Perspective View of St. Gothard Spiral Tunnels, in the Alps 62

Plan of St. Gothard Spiral Tunnels 63

Profile of the Same 63

Portal of a Finished Tunnel; showing Cameron's Cone, Colorado 64

Railway Pass at Rocky Point in the Rocky Mountains 67

Bridge Pier Founded on Piles 68

Pneumatic Caisson 70

Transverse Section of Pneumatic Caisson 71

Pier of Hawkesbury Bridge, Australia 75

Foundation Crib of the Poughkeepsie Bridge 76

Transverse Section of the Same 76

Granite Arched Approach to Harlem River Bridge in Process of Construction 77

The Old Portage Viaduct, Erie Railway, N. Y. 78

The New Portage Viaduct 79

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