Burlington Northern / Santa Fe locomotive
Taking
a break
in Skykomish, WA. After pulling a freight train through the 8 mile long
Cascade Tunnel under Steven's Pass. I think that tunnel is the
longest
railroad tunnel in North America. It was opened in 1929.
Reader
comment
The "New" Cascade Tunnel (at 7.79
miles) was the
longest railroad tunnel in North America when it was completed in 1929.
It eclipsed both Canadian Pacific's Connaught (Rogers Pass) and Denver
& Salt Lake's (DRG&W, SP, UP) Moffat (Rollins Pass)
Tunnels. Burlington
Northern's Flathead Tunnel (completed early in the 1970's by the Feds
who were flooding the old line through Rexford with backwater from the
Libby Dam - Kootenai River) came up just a few hundred feet short of
the New Cascade Tunnel. The Canadian Pacific completed a
second tunnel
over Rogers Pass in the late 1980's making it North America's new
champion.
Dave.
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