The embankment completed, with the canals dug by the dredgers on either side 244 How the embankment was built on the keys 245 How the reinforced concrete arches were built within wooden moulds 245 The training-bund or wall to narrow the Ganges by 3000 feet for the Curzon Bridge, showing railway approach 252 Erecting the piers for the Curzon Bridge 253 The training-bund under construction by native labour. At the extreme right a pier is being built for the bridge 254 General view of the pier-building operations for the Curzon Bridge across the Ganges at Allahabad 255 The Gokteik Viaduct under construction 256 View of the Gokteik Viaduct 257 Train emerging from Reinunga Tunnel, 5,217 feet long, in distance, showing snowscoop-plough on locomotive 262 Myrdal Station, showing entrance to Gravehals Tunnel, 17,420 feet in length 263 Myrdal Station in winter, showing depth of snowfall 263 A view on the Bergen Railway in winter, showing screens to protect line from drifting snow, and snowsheds 266 Mules carrying water in barrels 267 Load of railway metals on a mule’s back 267 Railway building in Nyasaland, Central Africa 282 A typical bridge on the Nyasaland Railway 283 The novel lift bridge over the Shiré River at Chiromo 283 The iron horse in Central Africa 284 The bascules being lowered by cables and winches from either cliff-face 285 The bascules lowered, showing the French engineers at centre making the connection 285 The Faux-Namiti Bridge completed 302 The line skirting the seashore near Okitsu, Tokaido, on the Japanese Government railways 303 The most striking example of Japanese railway engineering 306 Two railways racing to the Pacific coast through the Deschutes River Canyon 307 The “switchback” by means of which the Great Northern Railway of the United States negotiated the Cascade Mountains before the boring of the Cascade Tunnel 310 Building a steel trestle across a rift 311 Building the biggest embankment on record by hydraulic sluicing 314 The “Merry-go-round” devised to expedite raising an embankment 120 feet high 315