Yellowhead Pass
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The Yellowhead Pass is a mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Americas in the Canadian Rockies. It is on the provincial boundary between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Col
CNR GP9 in the Yellowhead Pass
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.
Yellowhead Pass
…Mountains for the planned Canadian Pacific Railway. The proposal was rejected in favour of a more direct and southerly route, through the more difficult Kicking Horse Pass, which was opened in 1886. Later the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railway used the Yellowhead Pass for their main lines, built c. 1910–1913…
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