Spiral Tunnel near Field, BC (June 2015)
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- Bird Eye View of the train running thru the spiral tunnel near Field, BC.
Yoho National Park.
When British Columbia joined Confederation in 1871, it was on the condition that Prime Minister John A. Macdonald would build a railway to link the province to the rest of the country.
The steep grade in Kicking Horse Pass posed a serious challenge. Under government pressure to complete the railway, and given the engineering challenges that came along with the geography, Canadian Pacific was not in a position to carve a gradual descent. A solution was reached, which temporarily allowed a grade of 4.5%. The first train to attempt the hill in 1884 derailed, tragically killing three workers.
The solution for a more gradual grade came from J.E.Schwitzer, one of the railway’s Assistant Chief Engineers. He modeled the Spiral Tunnels after a system used in Switzerland. In 1909 the Spiral Tunnels were completed. With a gentler grade, descents became safer and slower.
Although the Spiral Tunnels were a great improvement for the grade, rockfall, mudslides and avalanches are some of the challenges we still face today in this area where nature reigns supreme.
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Very nice I had the good fortune to be in the engine twice with a good engineer friend as he took me from Calgary to field and back.... A wonderful experience not many people can say they have done. Thanks for the video
Kicking Horse pass? I saw the upper spiral from the highway scenic overloo that had to be a fabulous experience to ride through it.
Brilliant drone video!!!! Loved going through the tunnels.
Beautiful
The best Spiral Tunnel video!
Fantastic video!!
February 4 2018 Feel for the three men who died today here. Requiem in Pacem.
:20 is where the cars started to leave the rails. The front locomotive ended up in the river below. CP Rail was also the railroad involved in the Lac Magentic disaster.
I talked to someone locally who knows this railway well. He says it was a preventable disaster, the wrong brakes applied in the wrong weather (air brakes applied on the train for several hours while stationary waiting for another train to pass at the top of this single track 20 km long 2% gradient in subzero winter temperatures) because the railway, company, based in Toronto, cares more about production than it does about safety. Apparently all this is well known among train crews in the region, whether the Gov't exposes it in its accident inquiry remains to be seen.
Nice drone footage....
Awesome !!
Great view... But please go back and get similar footage of the upper tunnel!
No idea when I gonna be back there. I sure will one day :-)
Might not be as spectacular as lower tunnel, but I can't find any footage of it anywhere. It looks like the tunnel entrances are almost the same angle, so the train would essentially do a 180. Would be cool to see.
good thing my internet can only load 10 seconds of video in 1 minute
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What's the title of the song, anyone know?
How was this done? Seems too steady to be from a helicopter. Was it a drone?
Sorry, totally missed your question - yes, drone it was.
I assume you had a permit to fly that drone.
We are learning about the CPR in school
You live in Canada, I presume? Glad they're teaching you the importance the railroad played in the development of your country. Here in the States, the Transcontinental Railroad barely made it as a vocabulary word in the high school history text books.
@@boomer8806 I finished grade 13 in spring '77 without ever being taught a thing about the importance of the railways in establishing Canada's west.
Fortunately I had a huge interest in model trains and thus railways. I learned a good deal on my own.
My kids were a little luckier. The only history they were taught was Canadian history. (Something's missing there ...)
cool
Presentelon el camino con cámara dentro del tren
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Beautiful