The Spiral Tunnels And The Big Hill An Illustrated Railway History

Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Mountain Vision Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780994916150

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The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill – An Illustrated Railway History by Graeme Pole Pdf

When the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) built through the Rockies in 1884 it laid track straight down the west slope of Kicking Horse Pass. Dropping 1,140 feet in 7.1 railway miles, this section of railway was a construction worker’s horror and a railroader’s nightmare that soon became known as the Big Hill. Intended to be temporary, the 4.5 percent grade, more than 3 miles long, saw use for 25 years until completion of the Spiral Tunnels in 1909. The two tunnels – unique in North America – loop over themselves, doubling the length of track and halving the grade. Incorporating more than 100 photographs, The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill – An Illustrated Railway History describes the construction of the CPR and recounts the tales of daring, defiance, and disaster on the second-steepest mainline track ever operated in North America. Maps and diagrams reveal how the Spiral Tunnels create a safer grade for trains. The text provides up-to-date descriptions of today’s locomotives and explains the many challenges of operating trains on mountain grades. A Canadian bestseller for three decades, this revised edition will be informative reading for railfans, for travellers in the Rockies, and for those with an interest in Canadian history.

Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Altitude Publishing (Canada)
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1551539071

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The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill by Graeme Pole Pdf

Railway history comes alive in this fascinating book about one of Canada's most incredible railway stories. The Spiral Tunnels and The Big Hill describes the construction and operation of the world-famous Canadian Pacific Railway through the treacherous Kicking Horse Pass in the Canadian Rockies. The perils of operating the section of track at the notorious ""Big Hill"" on the western slopes of the Great Divide are recounted through tales of disaster and defiance and are illustrated with over 60 black and white photographs. The Spiral Tunnels are explained through stories, maps and diagrams which reveal the operation of the tunnels and how they solved the problems which resulted in so much mayhem and madness. The Spiral Tunnels and The Big Hill is informative and entertaining reading for railways enthusiasts, as well as for those with a general interest in the human history of the Canadian Rockies and Yoho National Park.

Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Altitude Publishing (Canada)
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551537176

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The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill (New Edition) by Graeme Pole Pdf

Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Railroad tunnels
ISBN : 1894974484

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The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill by Graeme Pole Pdf

Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1897252463

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Gravity, Steam, and Steel by Graeme Pole Pdf

Steep grades, extreme climate, avalanche hazard, tunnels, trestles, and bridges-all in a wilderness setting-Rogers Pass packs a great deal of railway interest into 65 miles of track. Using 80 archival photographs, many previously unpublished, Gravity, Steam, and Steel: An Illustrated Railway History of Rogers Pass tells the stories of railway triumphs and tragedies on one of the most notorious sections of track in the world. For almost 125 years, CP Rail has battled the elements at Rogers Pass, spending hundreds of millions of dollars while creating solutions new to railroading. Gravity, Steam, and Steel was conceived and written as a companion volume to The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill, which has sold more than 25,000 copies since publication in 1996. Rogers Pass is a major focus in Glacier National Park (the park visitor centre is there) and the photographic material available from this area is incredibly diverse and interesting. There is no similar title on the market. Train buffs and locals will welcome this book. It will also be of interest the visiting public, many of whom want to broaden a casual interest in Canadian history.

Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Canmore, Alta : Altitude Pub. Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1554390621

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Great Railways of the Canadian West by Graeme Pole Pdf

Describes the construction of three great railways of the Canadian West - the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern - that helped to stitch the country together physically while threatening to tear it apart politically.

Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Mountain Vision Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780969724988

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Rails Across the Rockies by Graeme Pole Pdf

With 54 black and white photographs and maps, Rails Across the Rockies tells the stories of the surveying and construction of the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Northern railways in the glory days of Canadian railroading. The construction of the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern railways rank among the greatest political and financial gambles in Canada’s history. Politicians, engineers, and surveyors bickered and scrapped for years over why, how, and where to locate the rails. Each of the enterprises helped to stitch the country together physically while threatening to tear it apart politically. Great Railways of the Canadian West tells the stories of the scheming and the daring, and the monumental physical toil of laying steel across the mountains in the golden age of railroading in Canada.

Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Mountain Vision Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780994916136

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Gravity, Steam, and Steel by Graeme Pole Pdf

In 1882, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company committed to building Canada’s first trans-continental railway across unknown ground in the Selkirk Mountains of southern British Columbia. It was a gamble that almost scuttled the project and the promise of the young country. During the next three years, a small army of surveyors, engineers, and labourers cleared the grade and built track across Rogers Pass—the only break in the Selkirk Mountains—a place that defined wilderness. Trestles, tunnels, snowsheds, bridges, and miles of looping track—the Canadian Pacific Railway has since employed them all to reduce the dangers and to make railway operations in Rogers Pass safer and more reliable. Gravity, Steam, and Steel recounts the triumphs and tragedies of building and operating a railway in a place where 40 feet of snow falls each year, and where trains routinely run on grades that many other railways would consider impossibly steep.

Author : Anthony Lambert
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781407061412

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Lambert's Railway Miscellany by Anthony Lambert Pdf

The world of the railways weaves a spell over many people. In this engaging book railway expert Anthony Lambert presents some of the best stories. From the early days come tales of financial skulduggery and worries that sparks from locomotives might ignite sheep's fleeces. But as the railway transformed the modern world, attitudes changed, and railways were opened to great rejoicing and even religious blessing. The perennial appeal of the steam locomotive generated a pride amongst railwaymen and a fascination among the public. The romantic aspects of the railway were soon celebrated - and not just the unexpected engagement that came from a snowbound train in the Highlands or the sexual shenanigans of the Orient Express. Here are stories of railway travel, from the palatial carriages of tsars and maharajahs to the open trucks of the 'lower orders', mishaps and faux pas, and tales of how ticket inspectors used to have to hold on to the outside of carriages while clipping tickets. From tales of lonely stations and signal-boxes in Scotland, to the unlucky engineer eaten by a lion in a carriage in Kenya, Lambert casts his net across railways worldwide to gather the most entertaining material. There are stories here that would enliven even a cheerless commute on the 18.01, and remind you that our railways really were - and occasionally still are - full of derring-do, romance and character.

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781550027945

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The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Ron Brown Pdf

Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use.

Author : Harold Adams Innis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1015724302

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A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway by Harold Adams Innis Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Colin Garratt,Max Wade-Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 0760749523

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Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail by Colin Garratt,Max Wade-Matthews Pdf

Since the birth of the railroads in the early Industrial Age, people across the world have been fascinated by the locomotive as a powerful symbol of advanced technology and an exciting means of transport. From the early beginnings of steam power to today's high-speed passenger trains, this book spans nearly two centuries of locomotive and railway development.

Author : Richard Morenus
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781789125245

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Alaska Sourdough by Richard Morenus Pdf

Clyde Charles “Slim” Williams (1881-1974) first arrived in Alaska in 1900 at the age of 19, looking for adventure. He spent the next three decades trapping, hunting, breeding dogs, and blazing trails throughout the frontier. The paths of two rugged adventurers crossed and the result is wonderful entertainment. Pioneer Alaska Sourdough Slim Williams told his life’s story to Dick Morenus, a city-bred man who had lived in the Canadian bush. Because both spoke the language of the North, this story captures the drama and thrills just as Slim experienced them. After reading Alaska Sourdough, you will be as glad as Dick and Slim are that they were fortunate enough to meet.

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Author : David M. Baird
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4066338049933

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Yoho National Park: The Mountains, the Rocks, the Scenery by David M. Baird Pdf

Embark on a journey through the wonders of Yoho National Park, where nature's grandeur unfolds in a symphony of mountains, rocks, and breathtaking scenery. In this meticulously crafted guidebook by David M. Baird, the hidden treasures of Yoho are unveiled, each chapter revealing a new facet of its remarkable landscape. Delve into the origins of these majestic mountains, tracing the eons of geological forces that shaped their awe-inspiring forms. From castellate peaks to dogtooth spires, Baird guides readers through a tapestry of distinct mountain shapes, painting vivid portraits of their geological complexities.