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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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ighest peaks of the Otter-tail Mts,, walled, massive and castellated, rise abrupt-ly to an immense height; and looking south, a magni-ficent range of peaks extends in orderly array towardsthe south-east as far as the eye can reach. These arethe Beaverfoot Mts., appearing to slope away fromthe railway. At the right Mt. Hunter, a long, grad-ual slope pushes its huge mass forward like a wedgebetween the Ottertail and Beaverfoot ranges. Theriver turns abruptly against its base and plunges intothe lower Kicking Horse canyon, down which it dis-putes the passage with the railway. Near Pallisercan be seen a group of hoodoos in process of forma-tion. Palliser— The canyon rapidly deepens until, Alt. 3,283 ft. beyond Palliser, the mountain sidesbecome vertical, rising straight up thousands of feet,in a bronze wall crested by a long line of namelesspeaks, and within an easy stones throw from wallto wall. Down this vast chasm go the railway andthe river together, the former crossing from sidejto
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28 Soo-Pacific True Scenic Route, STATIONS side to ledges cut out of the solid rock, and twistingand turning in every direction, and every minute ortwo plunging through projecting angles of rock whichseem to close the way. With the towering cliffs al-most shutting out the sunlight and the roar of theriver and the train increased a hundredfold by theechoing walls, the passage of this terrible gorge willnever be forgotten. The train suddenly emerges into Golden— daylight as Golden is reached. The Alt. 2,550 ft. broad river ahead is the Columbia Moberly— moving northward. The supreme- Alt. 2,540 ft. ly beautiful mountains beyond to theleft and the south are the Selkirks, rising from theirforest-clad bases and lifting their ice-crowned headsfar into the sky. They extend in an apparently un- ■ broken line from the southeast to the northwest,gradually melting into the remote distance. Para-llel with them, and rising eastward, to the right andthe north from the Columbia, range upon ran

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