. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . de is4J/2 per cent, for a distance of 3 1-5miles. The grade reduction is effected bydoubling the length of the road and mak-ing the grade a little less than half assleep. The new line is therefore The old location of track crossed theKicking Horse valley once, while the newroad crosses the river three times onmagnificent steel bridges. The feature ofgreatest interest on the new line is twoloops in the track which makes a train 282 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING July, 1909. reverse its
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . de is4J/2 per cent, for a distance of 3 1-5miles. The grade reduction is effected bydoubling the length of the road and mak-ing the grade a little less than half assleep. The new line is therefore The old location of track crossed theKicking Horse valley once, while the newroad crosses the river three times onmagnificent steel bridges. The feature ofgreatest interest on the new line is twoloops in the track which makes a train 282 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING July, 1909. reverse its actual direction of motiontwice in the ascent or descent. A trainleaving Hector for the west crosses theriver and proceeds along the Itft bank. Itcontinues what may be called its westerlycourse for about jyi miles, when it neer of the road at Winnipeg, Man., andMr. John Callaghan, divisional men actually on the ground are N. Merriam, assistant engineer, andMr. J. W. Shepperd, resident cost of the work is about one and a and on wliich not a single life has UP THE YOHO V.\LLEV passes round a loop having a radius of573 ft. This loop is 3,200 ft. long, andhas a vertical fall of 48 ft. This loop isa spiral tunnel driven through solid rock,and in our frontispiece picture both por-tals are visible. The one on the higherlevel is, if we may so say, the easternentrance, though as a matter of fact it isg;ographical!y west of the western orlower mouth of the spiral. From this point the westbound train,descending the grade, moves in a gener-ally northerly direction for about twomiles. It again crosses the river andtravels along the right bank. A curve inthe line takes the train in the directionof the flow of the river, and it enters thesecond spiral tunnel after traveling 2,890fl through solid rock, in which it makesa descent of 45 ft.; it comes out close tothe river and at right angles to the flowof water, crosses the canyon for the thi
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