Field British Columbia Kicking Horse Pass Spiral Railroad RPPC Postcard 30689
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Description
Field British Columbia Kicking Horse Pass Spiral Railroad RPPC Postcard 30689. The surrounding evergreen forest and rugged topography highlight the challenge of building a transcontinental railway through the Rockies in the early 20th century. Field British Columbia Kicking Horse Pass Spiral Railroad 1924-1949 Vintage RPPC Postcard 30689 This Real Photo Postcard RPPC shows the Lower Spiral Tunnel near Field, British Columbia, in the Kicking Horse Pass region of the Canadian Rockies. The scene, photographed by Byron Harmon of Banff, Alberta, captures one of the most remarkable engineering features along the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) mainline. The Lower Spiral Tunnel is located just east of Field and was designed to reduce the steep grade of the original line through the mountains by looping the track inside Mount Ogden. In the photograph, the railway line can be seen entering and emerging from tunnel portals carved into the mountainside, with multiple track levels visible against the forested slopes. The view illustrates how trains descend or climb through the pass in a slow, graceful curve, crossing above and below themselves as they navigate the dramatic terrain of Yoho National Park. The surrounding evergreen forest and rugged topography highlight the challenge of building a transcontinental railway through the Rockies in the early 20th century. The back of the postcard identifies it as “Along Line of Canadian Pacific Railway,” and credits Byron Harmon, one of Canada’s most noted mountain photographers, based in Banff. The card’s AZO stamp box and high-quality sepia tone indicate production in the early postcard era, around the 1910s to early 1920s. This image represents both the grandeur of western Canadian scenery and the ingenuity of railway engineering near Field, British Columbia, in the heart of Yoho National Park.
