A figure eight under solid rock

We checked out the Canadian Pacific Railroad’s Spiral tunnels. The valley is too narrow to snake the tracks enough to maintain a usable grade so they actually carved two huge loop tunnels deep in the mountains just to get more travel length of tracks to decrease the slope to something manageable. They to into one loop, come out and go under the road then go into the other one and come out heading the same direction as when they started. Pretty amazing.

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