John Frank Stevens

By Clifford Foust,

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One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief…

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Larger-than-life personalities have dominated much of the story of the Canal since it was envisioned.

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Still, it was John Frank Stevens, one of America’s greatest civil engineers, who is singularly most responsible for overcoming the obstacles that nature put in the way to…

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