Mount Rogers and Hermit Mountain Orientatin Table - Rogers Pass - Orientation Tables on Waymarking.com

Working for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Major Albert Bowman Rogers first discovered this gap through the impenetrable Selkirk Mountain barrier in 1881, and he returned to confirm the existence of the pass a year later.

Construction of the railway line on the steep mountainsides and over the deep gorges of the Selkirk Mountains required engineering solutions that represented innovative breakthroughs during Victorian times.

Operation of a railway line through the incredible avalanche danger and 12 metre (40 foot) annual snowfall of Rogers Pass demanded new technologies and new skills from the railroaders.

The Rogers Pass route followed some of the early tracks of the trans-continental railway that were abandoned years ago as too steep for trains, with the addition of a number of snow sheds to protect the highway from the many winter avalanches (the area gets about 200 ft of snowfall each year) and rockslides. This stretch was opened in July 1962, and marked the official completion of the Trans-Canada.

Artist / Creator: Parks Canada Location / Access: Rogers Pass Road Side Pull Out and Rest Area for the monument celbrating the completion of the TransCanada highway. See: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2QQ2_Rogers_Pass_Monument_Arches_Rogers_Pass_British_Columbia Date of creation: Not listed

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