Spiral Train Tunnels at Yoho National Park, British Columbia
Day 21 6-20-16 We are lucky enough to get to the Spiral Train Tunnels while there is a train going through them.
Lower Spiral Tunnel - Yoho National Park - British Columbia - Canada
Tunnel en spirale inférieur - Parc National Yoho - Colombie-Britannique - Canada
Coordonnées GPS: 51°26'09.2N 116°24'14.2W
Nous avons fait un arrêt à un belvédère situé en bordure de l'Autoroute 1 pour en apprendre davantage sur l'instauration des tunnels en spirale. Ces tunnels ont été mis en place pour améliorer la sécurité des convois ferroviaires.
De ce belvédère, on peut apercevoir le tunnel inférieur (lower tunnel) creusé dans le mont Ogden.
Le tunnel est tout de même assez éloigné du belvédère et la vue est partiellement obstruée par plusieurs arbres.
Cependant, plusieurs panneaux explicatifs ont été installés afin d'en apprendre davantage sur ces tunnels ainsi que sur le Col Kicking Horse, lieu historique national.
Près d'une trentaine de trains empruntent ces tunnels chaque jour. Lors de notre courte visite, nous n'avons pas eu l'opportunité d'en voir.
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Spiral Tunnels Yoho National Park
In Yoho National Park the Canadian Pacific Railway uses two spiral tunnels to tackle to steep mountains, built starting in 1907 and completed in 1909 these tunnels are still in use today.
It is an amazing feat of engineering as the tunnels were constructed with rudimentary tools and dangerous nitro-glycerine explosives and were only 5cm off from center. They were built to bypass the Big Hill which was notoriously steep and difficult for trains to get up and down, many trains derailed.
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Spiral Tunnels - Yoho National park
Views of the train going through the spiral tunnel is a beautiful sight to watch from the spiral tunnels in Yoho park
Spiral Tunnel Train Yoho British Colombia Canada DRONE AERIAL VIEW!!
This is a drone video of the spiral train going through the mountain in order to slow down through the dissent of the altitude of the mountain. This is in yoho national park In British Columbia Canada and is the most popular roadside stop in all of Canada. Please share and like and subscribe.
Spiral Tunnels - Yoho National Park (A train model)
This is the train model from Yoho National Park Visitor Center showing how the tunnels work to enable trains to climb pass the Kicking Horse Pass.
Spiral Tunnels - Yoho National Park
Watch the same train go in through the entrance and exit of the lower spiral tunnel in Yoho National Park.
Upper Spiral Tunnel, Yoho National Park CANADA - 2010.06.22
ヨーホー国立公園 峠を列車が登れるように8の字のようにトンネルが掘られている。ハイウェイ－１からYoho Valley Rd.に入ったところから高度が高いほうのトンネルが見える。
Yoho National Park, Canada: Ab/BC Line, Spiral Tunnels, Takkakaw Falls, Field - Time Lapse Drive
Starting at the Alberta/British Columbia line, this video follows Trans Canada Route 1 through Yoho National Park, past the Spiral Tunnels viewpoint, out a side road to Takkakaw Falls, then back to the community of Field.
Upper Spiral Tunnel, Yoho National Park (Canada 1999)
This video is about Upper Spiral Tunnel Yoho National Park (Canada 1999)
Lower Spiral Tunnel, Yoho National Park CANADA - 2010.06.22
ヨーホー国立公園 峠を列車が登れるように8の字のようにトンネルが掘られている。ハイウェイ－１沿いの展望台からは高度が低いほうのトンネルが見える。
Upper Spiral Tunnel [viewpoint], Yoho National Park (British Columbia, Canada)
Upper Spiral Tunnel lookout, Yoho National Park (British Columbia, Canada)
Riding Rocky Mountaineer through Spiral Tunnel in British Columbia, Canada 1FD7BBA7 6D88 4261 94E8 3
Spiral Tunnels, British Columbia, Canada
Just west of the Canadian Rockies’ Continental Divide lies Yoho National Park, a beautiful land of jagged peaks and roaring rivers. Back in the late 19th century, however, the Canadian Pacific Railway company didn’t exactly see the beauty of Yoho. After all, the company had to figure out a way across the notorious Kicking Horse Pass and its perilous 1,000-foot drop from Wapta Lake to the plains just east of Field. Determining how to safely create one of the steepest railroad stretches in the world was no easy task. The original rail route had a dangerous 4 percent gradient, and it was a disaster. The first train crashed straight into a canyon, and it would be another 25 years before the CPR would build Spiral Tunnels.
Spiral Tunnels was completed in 1909 and remains a true feat of engineering: two vast tunnels running figure-eight loops through the snowcapped mountains. The upper tunnel cuts a swath through Cathedral Mountain for 1,000 yards, while the lower tunnel steers through Mt Ogden. By going around in loops, Spiral Tunnels double the length of this railroad stretch, reducing the gradient to a much safer 2 percent.
Watching two-mile-long freight trains rush through Spiral Tunnels is quite a sight. It takes a while to realize you’re not watching three different trains going in opposite directions, but instead, one long train looping over and under itself, deep into the mountains and up the valley to the Kicking Horse Pass.
Unendlicher Zug? Lower Spiral Tunnel, Yoho Nationalpark (BC) Canada - Trainspotting #1
Trainspotting
- Lower Spiral Tunnel im Yoho Nationalpark in British Columbia (Kanada)
- In diesem Video ist nur ein Zug zu sehen
- Zum Teil sieht man den Zug an 3 Stellen gleichzeitig
- Um die Steigung der Zugtrassen zu veringern haben die Kanadier nach einer besseren Streckenführung gesucht. Die Lösung habe Sie in der Schweiz gefunden, am Gotthardpass. Dort werden Kehrtunnels eingesetzt um die Steigung der Streckführung zu veringern.
Driving Highway 1 to Lower Spiral Tunnel - Yoho National Park - British Columbia - Canada
En route - Autoroute 1 vers le tunnel en spirale jnférieur - Parc National Yoho - Colombie-Britannique - Canada
Nous entrons maintenant dans le Parc National Yoho en Colombie Britannique et nous nous dirigeons vers le tunnel en spirale inférieur (voir vidéo
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A train passing the Spiral Tunnel in Yoho National Park BC Canada
A train is passing the Spiral Tunnel in Yoho National Park, BC, Canada. It looks like you are seeing 3 trains, but in fact, it is just 3 parts of one train.
Spiral Tunnels, Yoho National Park, Alberta Canada
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CP 5803 EAST STALLS AT THE UPPER SPIRAL TUNNEL
The action takes place in the “Kicking Horse Pass” and more specifically near the Alberta-BC border of the Trans-Canada Highway; on April 20th, 1987. The video is digitized from an 8mm tape.
Canadian Pacific Railway 5803 East has left Field BC about 20 minutes earlier and just climbed “The Big Hill”, ascending 1,070 ft. (330 m) along 10 miles (16km), from Field, at 4,267ft. (1,301 m), reaching the Continental Divide, at around 5,340 ft. (1,530 m).
It takes about 175 cars to see both ends of the train. Watch for the caboose, as CP 5803 East, passes through the Lower Spiral Tunnel (#2 Tunnel), where it will turn through a semicircle to the left inside Mount Ogden for 0.6 mile (891 m), bringing it 50 ft. (16 m) higher, after crossing its track below.
5803 East, continues its climb on about a 2.2% grade after exiting the upper portal of #2 Tunnel, passing under the Trans-Canada Highway for the second time, before climbing through YOHO, and reaching the Upper Spiral Tunnel (#1 Tunnel) under Cathedral Mountain, which it will enter and, after turning right for 0.6 mile (1 km) through a semicircle, the train will be raised by another 56 ft.
SD40 units CP 5803, 5675, 5674, and 5635 struggle to emerge and, after a couple of tries, the train is split, because the tonnage exceeds the head end horsepower.
Following camcording VIA Rail “The Canadian” (service through the subdivision ceased January 1990), I decided to climb straight up about 300 ft. (100 m), to wait for the next eastbound to Calgary, which I knew would be a freight within the next hour and so, positioned myself on a rock outcropping near PARTRIDGE (Mi. 128.0 CP Laggan Sub). Soon after, CP 5803 East showed up and I expected the usual 10-minute operation, but it turned into a half-hour ordeal under deteriorating weather.
April weather in the Canadian Continental Divide can turn nasty quickly. Wapta Lake at the top doesn’t thaw out till mid-June, so, after the first section had passed through, I left the area, because it would be some time before the second section could be recovered and weather was moving in.
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Spiral Tunnels; Yoho Park, British Columbia
The lower and upper spiral tunnels an engineering feat. The overlooks are on the Trans Canadian Highway and the road to Takkakaw Falls respectively.
Canada's Amazing Spiral Train Tunnels in 4K
You will not believe this until you see it. So, here you go.
Along Canadian Highway 1 in the Rocky Mountains, you can see where trains pass through spiral tunnels on their way across the Continental Divide. The trains will cross Banff National Park near Lake Louise. We waited for a train until evening. Light was fading fast. But we were rewarded for our patience. Now, if only they had trimmed the trees so we could see better.
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