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CASCADE PASSAGE-1

conquered the Cascades

Switchbacks forced Jim Hill
to shelve temporarily

his "maximum ton-miles with
minimum train-miles" slogan

D. W. MC LAUGHLIN

I

PICTURE, if you can, a transcontinental railroad to which the mighty Rockies were a mere stumbling block, yet which needed 4 per cent grades and switchbacks to get its main line over a range less than half the height of Union Pacific's Sherman Hill or Santa Fe's Raton Pass. This was Great Northern in the early '90's when Jim Hill pushed it through to the Coast.

The destiny of the nation's northernmost transcontinental was plotted by James J. Hill, its construction was guided by the master engineer John Frank Stevens. Three times Stevens conquered the Cascades: once in '93, with switchbacks and 4 per cent grades to get over the 4000-foot Stevens Pass; again in 1900, with a 22-mile tunnel 600 feet under the pass which eliminated the switchbacks and reduced the ruling grade to 2 per cent; and finally in 1925, with his recommendation to the Great Northern's Board of Directors (he was then one of the most respected engineers of the day and had pushed the Panama Canal through to completion) for construction of the 8-milelong Cascade Tunnel which, at one fell swoop, hacked another 500 feet of height, 6 miles of snowsheds, and 8 miles of main line off the Great Northern's troublesome Cascade Division.

Cascade Division, the last section of the Great Northern's St. Paul-to-Seattle main line to be completed - where the motive power grew from 20,085-pound-tractive-effort Moguls to 70,000-pound-tractive-effort Mallets in the short span of 13 years; where the never-ending search for bigger and more powerful motive power led the GN to steal a 60-year march on EMD by sending Consolidations back to Baldwin to be rebuilt to 80,430-pound-tractive-effort Mallets with an unlikely 2-6-8-0 wheel arrangement; where in a tunnel a locomotive once ran at full speed for 10 minutes without moving its train a foot; whose electric locomotives could run at only 15 mph (and at no other speed) whether running light or with full tonnage; where electrics hauled steamers and their trains for 20 years but where the last steamers hauled the electrics.

Cascade Division - where a passenger train entered a tun

THOSE aboard inspection train are looking down on 157-foot-high trestle that led into Horseshoe (Martin's Creek) Tunnel, 5 miles west of switchback.

Courtesy of the Wenatchee Daily World.