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Title: Tours to the Yellowstone Park and Pacific Coast : July 3, August 6, September 3, 1906
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) : Pennsylvania Railroad
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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a little stream parts into two,the waters of one flowing into the Pacific Ocean,and the other into Hudson Bay. The journeythrough this section of the line is at times awe-inspiring, the railroad clinging to the side of themountain, while the Yoho River is a narrow, wind-ing thread 600 feet below. Field Field Station is located at the foot of MountStephen, one of the giants of the Rockies. It rearsits duomo-like head 10,527 feet to the skies. Itsshoulders are covered with enormous ice fields,and a mammoth green glacier overhangs its fore-part nearly a thousand feet, the outer edge show-ing a vertical depth of 100 feet. A days journeyaway are the recently-discovered Takkakaw Falls,1846 feet high, with a sheer drop of 1200 feet. Therailroad, unfortunately, does not pass near enoughto these great falls for passengers to see them. Thegreat mountain peak opposite Mount Stephen isMount Field. Looking down the valley, on theleft. Mount Dennis is seen, and on the right, MountsDeville and King.
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76 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Palliser Near this station the railroad turns into LowerKicking Horse Canyon, which narrows and deepensuntil, beyond Palliser, the mountain sides becomepractically vertical and thousands of feet in height.The railroad and the river have barely enoughroom to make their way through the tortuouscourse of the canyon. Golden Beyond Golden the route leaves the Rockies andemerges into the upper valley of the ColumbiaRiver, which the tourists are to see later at Port-land. Ahead is the great Selkirk Range. Softgreen streaks down the slopes of these mountainsindicate the passage of avalanches. Just beyondBeavermouth Station, twenty-eight miles fromGolden, the railroad enters the Selkirks throughthe gate of the Beaver River, the passage beingso narrow that a felled tree serves as a bridgeover the river. Bear Creek Beyond Bear Creek Station the railroad leavesthe Beaver River and enters the gorge of BearCreek. The grade at this point is 116 feet to themile, and thou

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