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Construction of the railroad was considered one of the engineering
marvels of the time. The grade from Bartlett to the Crawford House
was significant: the station at Crawford House was over 1,200 feet
higher than the station in Bartlett. Much of the way, it was necessary
to carve a shelf out of the mountainside for the track.
All road and railroad work was done with hand tools and horse drawn
carts until dynamite became available in the United States. Blasting
the tons of rock using black powder didn’t occur until dynamite was
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