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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
Location: Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada

 
Quarry scene
55 of 104 		Scene from the cutting yard, Wallace quarry
56 of 104 		Wire saw used by Wallace Quarries Ltd.
57 of 104 		Diamond saw cutting sandstone
58 of 104 		Diamond saw beginning to cut
59 of 104 		Diamond Saw working
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Ship loading sandstone from the Gravity Railroad in Wallace Harbour.
61 of 104 		Lifting sandstone using huge derricks
62 of 104 		Blasting a quarry face, with debris in the air
63 of 104 		Moving blocks of sandstone around in the quarry.
64 of 104 		Picture of the different layers worked to extract stone from the quarry.
65 of 104 		A giant cable drum
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Quarry end of gravity rail road
67 of 104 		Quarry pond
68 of 104 		Mainstreet Wallace 1910
69 of 104 		Gravity railroad tracks.
70 of 104 		Drill holes direct blast
71 of 104 		Sandstone after blast showing drill marks
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