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Iron Goat Trail
By Cosmos Mariner, July 30, 2015
Twin Tunnels Bored Through Granite Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | The twin tunnels were built in 1916 by blasting through solid granite rock. To protect the trains from falling pieces of granite, which is easily cracked by temperature extremes of freezing and thawing, a timber lining was constructed inside the . . . — — Map (db m156145) HM |
| | Downstream from here, about one mile to the west of where you are now standing, the “last spike” connecting the tracks from the west and east was driven into the ground late at night on January 6, 1893. If you look across this valley . . . — — Map (db m156160) HM |
| | This massive concrete wall stands as mute testimony to the fearsome conditions that finally drove the Great Northern Railway off the side of Windy Mountain. Denuded hillsides, unstable from logging and forest fires started by the coal-fired steam . . . — — Map (db m156177) HM |
| | The timbers that held up the wooden roofs of the snowshed rested on large concrete footings, visible to the left in this 1913 photo taken during construction. Look for these footings along this wall and in other places along the Iron Goat Trail. . . . — — Map (db m156190) HM |
Apr. 23, 2024
