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      A Linde photo of a railroad gang "striking rails" on the Trans Continental Railway in the early 1900s. J.D. McArthur Co. was the contractor for this section of the railroad.

      A Linde photograph of Webster's work on the Trans Continental Railway near Dryden. The image shows rock being dumped to build up the ballast for the rails.

      Photograph of early railroad construction with workers standing for a group photograph in front of a rock cut.

      Photograph showing a group of railroad construction workers standing together with their work horses.

      Note on bottom of image reads: "Anderson J. Camp - Dagera"

      Photograph showing a group of railroad construction workers.

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      Black and white photograph of a group of railroad construction workers.

      Photograph of rock pile used for early railroad construction.

      A railroad construction worker standing with his work horses.

      Black and white photograph of a group of railroad construction workers posing in front of a rock cut.

      Black and white photograph of a group of railroad construction workers posing in front of a rock cut.

      The construction camp of Cunningham & Nelson in the area somewhere between Rat Portage and the Manitoba border. Quite often camps were named after the construction company or foreman of the work gangs.

      An area of rock cut with the work gang looking over the completed section of track. Work along the area between Rat Portage and Dryden, as illustrated in this photo, was done manually without the aid of machinery to haul the rocks into position for the laying of track.

      This image shows a construction gang with horse and boom used to remove rocks that had been cleared by dynamite on a contract for the Trans Continental Railway (early 1900s). Horses and make-shift booms indicate the manual effort required to make this set of tracks a reality for Northwestern Ontario.

      After the completion of the culvert a group of workers pose for a photo of their completed task.

      Black and white photograph by Linde shows the method for clearing blasted rocks and debris from the construction site on a section of track for the Transcontinental Railway near Keewatin, Ontario.

      The Campbells work gang poses for a photo at the end of a track section. Horses were valuable to the completion of this Grand Trunk line of track and often worth as much or more to hire as the men on the gangs at the turn of the century.

      Black and white photograph of the Olsen and Larson construction camp in the early 1900s.

      A logging camp by the river, or possibly a "river drive" camp used primarily during the spring to house workers. The length of logs in the river would lead one to connect this image to the pulp and paper industry, but paper mills were nonexistent in the area at the …