Selkirk Mountains
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The Selkirk Mountains are a mountain range spanning the northern portion of the Idaho Panhandle, eastern Washington, and southeastern British Columbia which are part of a larger grouping of mountains,
Mt. Fox and Mt. Dawson from Asulkan Pass, British Columbia, c. 1902
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
Selkirk Mountains
…the Selkirks presented a formidable barrier to the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, until A.B. Rogers discovered the mountain pass that bears his name in 1881–1882. As a result of the railway's construction via that route, Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks (Canada) in the heart of the Selkirks…
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.