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THE TEHUANTEPEC SHIP RAILWA Y 
draulic lifts are used for raising the vessels. The platform on 
Avhich the car and vessel rest is about 40 feet wide. There are 
20 hydraulic presses, each 25 inches in diameter, with a stroke 
of 40 feet, and the sy.stem is capable of lifting a vessel carrying 
1,000 tons of cargo. There are two tracks of standard gauge, 
18-foot centers, with rails weighing 110 pounds per linear }’ard. 
This ship railway would now Ije in operation hut for the lapi^e 
MAP SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE CHIGNECTO SHIP RAILWAY, TO CONNECT THE 
GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE AND THE BAY OF FUNDY. 
of the government charter during a tem])orary failure of funds 
for construction. It is confidently expected that a rencAval of 
the charter and an extension of time will soon l)e granted. The 
hopes of all advocates of ship-railway methods are centered in 
this comparatively small railway at C'hignecto. 
The main features of the ship railway designed for the Tehuan- 
tepec isthmus are terminal docks jirovided with a great lifting 
steel pontoon, which was sunken with the ship carriage to the- 
