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Title: Descriptive time tables; Soo-Atlantic, Soo-Winnipeg, Soo-Pacific, Soo-Spokane-Portland, Twin cities-Chicago, Chicago-Superior-Duluth-Ashland : scenic through car routes
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Sault Ste. Marie Railroad
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: (Minneapolis, Great Western Print. Co.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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anaskis Falls)may be heard from the railway. Here the differencebetween an ordinary upland stream and a glacier-fedriver is first noticed. Tumbling from great heights,the former may be foamy and tumultous; but thelatter is always milky-green with the sediment ofglacial silt, infinitesimally fine particles formed bythe grinding of the ice over the rocks. At Exshawa large cement works is being operated. The moun-En- ! tains now rise abruptly in great masses, a bend in thetrance line brings the train between two almost verticalto the walls of dizzy height. This is the gap by which theRock- j Rocky Motmtains are entered. Through this gate-ies. j way, the Bow River issues from the hills. Beyondit the track turns northward and ascends the longvalley between the Fairholme range on the right andthe Kananaskis range opposite. The prominenti peak on the left is Pigeon Mountain, and approach-! ing the station called The Gap, a magnificent viewi is obtained of Wind Mt. and the Three Sisters, also
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Soo-Pacific True Scenic Route. 15 WestBound EastBound MilesfromSt. Paul STATIONS Geo-ologyof themoun-tains andbeauty 1237 Can-more Beautyof thepass. 1252 MilesfromVancvr on the left. A remarkable contrast between theranges ahead is noticeable. On the right are fan-tastically broken and castellated heights; on the left jmassive snowladen promontories, rising thousands offeet, penetrated by enormous alcoves in which haze !and shadow of gorgeous coloring lie engulfed. The jaggedness of profile observed from the plains is now ;explained. These moimtains are tremendous up-lifts of stratified rocks, of the Devonian and Carbon- ^iferous ages, which have been broken out of thecrust of the earth slowly heaved aloft. Some sec-tions miles and miles in breadth, and thousands offeet thick, have been pushed straight up, so that theirstrata remain almost as level as before; others aretilted more or less on edge (always on this slope to-wards the east) and lie in a steeply slanting position;still oth

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