Newspaper extract
September 3, 1859, 19th century
Montreal Weekly Gazette
2.2.4.A
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"Roofing the Victoria bridge. (...) The locomotive, a small one, employed in conveying the iron plates to the workmen in the tube, passed through before the writer had left the roof. There was scarcely any vibration perceptible ; nothing but rumbling sound occasioned by the passage of a train through a tunnel".