Rogers Pass is a high mountain pass through the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, but the term also includes the approaches used by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans-Canada Highway. In t
Snow shed construction, Rogers Pass, 1887.
Mt. Macdonald (formerly Mt. Carroll), eastern slope, northeast from summit, 1887. Water tower and 2nd station in centre.
CP freight train, Stoney Creek Bridge, 1988.
Piers for lower loop viaduct (south of highway), Rogers Pass, 2007.
1910 Rogers Pass avalanche
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The 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche killed 58 men clearing a railroad line just outside of Revelstoke in Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia on March 4, 1910. It is Canada's worst
Rogers Pass (British Columbia)
…During the first 25 years of the line, 200 people died in avalanches. Single avalanches killed 6 employees in 1887, 7 or 8 in 1899, and about 60 in the 1910 catastrophe. The failure to rebuild snow sheds after the prior track deviation, and the inadequate design strength of an existing shed, proved devastating. On at…
Workers recover bodies and clear the tracks on March 5