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.
Looking east at Kicking Horse Pass from the Trans-Canada Highway
Panorama of the tunnels from the west, 1908 The Big Hill on the Canadian Pacific Railway
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
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
Kicking Horse Pass
…through the more northerly Yellowhead Pass. The original section of the CPR between the summit of the pass near Wapta Lake and Field was known as "The Big Hill". With a ruling gradient of 4.5% (1 in 23), it was the steepest stretch of main-line railroad in North America. Owing to frequent accidents and expensive…
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
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.