Railroad Structures & Estimates

Orrock was engineer of buildings for the Canadian Pacific Railway where he was primarily in charge of major railway hotel construction.  He collaborated with many architects in supervising the building of Canada’s famous railway hotels:  Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, Lake Louise, Banff Springs, Empress Hotel in Victoria, and the Palliser Hotel in Calgary.  This book is illustrated with many tables and line drawings useful in engineering the ordinary buildings needed to run a railroad. He is listed in the “Biographical Dictionary of Architects of Canada 1800-1950.”

A digitized vesion of this text is available through the Internet Archive.

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10680069