Big Hill
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The Big Hill on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line in British Columbia, Canada, was the most difficult piece of railway track on the CPR's route. It was in the rugged Canadian Rockies west of the
Looking west, 1890. Safety Switch No. 1 and its uphill spur are shown foreground and right; the truss bridge under the rear of the train, now known as the "Old Bridge", survives as a tourist attraction
Panorama of the tunnels from the west, 1908
3D model of the Spiral Tunnels and Highway 1 (black)
Lower portal of "Number Two" tunnel. The locomotives are passing under the train they are pulling.
Kicking Horse Pass
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Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Americas of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border, and lying within Yoho and Banff national parks.
Big Hill
…the most difficult piece of railway track on the CPR's route. It was in the rugged Canadian Rockies west of the Continental Divide of the Americas and Kicking Horse Pass. Even though the Big Hill was replaced by the Spiral Tunnels in 1909, the area has long been a challenge to the operation of trains and remains so to…
Looking east at Kicking Horse Pass from the Trans-Canada Highway
The train runs along the embankment at the side of the Kicking-Horse River pre-1942
View from the tracks through a tunnel along the Canadian Pacific Railway pre-1942