🚇 Big Hill

Canada · Americas · 51.43°N, 116.42°W

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Big Hill
The Big Hill on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line in British Columbia, Canada, was the most difficult piece of railway track on the CPR's route. It was in the rugged Canadian Rockies west of the Continental Divide of the Americas and Kicking Horse Pass. Even though the Big Hill was replaced by the Spiral Tunnels in 1909, the area has long been a challenge to the operation of trains and remains so to this day.

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Quick facts

CountryCanada
Continent / regionAmericas
Coordinates (approx.)51.43°N, 116.42°W · view on map

Big Hill is located in Canada, in Americas.

More railway tunnels in Canada

Brockville Tunnel · Bulldog Tunnel · Connaught Tunnel · Dunsmuir Tunnel · Lonsdale Tunnel · Merritton Tunnel · Michigan Central Railway Tunnel · Mount Macdonald Tunnel · Mount Royal Tunnel · Mount Shaughnessy Tunnel.

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