pole-erecting

Updated: September 8, 2025

Keeping on steadily at a hand-gallop, before he realized he had covered half the distance, he came upon the wire-stringing and pole-erecting gangs. A half mile farther, a long, dark break appeared in the plain, and a muffled din of pounding began to reach him.

Francis Lovell Coombs - The Young Railroaders : Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity