Rail Mountain Passes of the United States: Stampede Pass, Cajon Pass, Donner Pass, Delaware Water Gap, Cumberland Gap

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Stampede Pass, Cajon Pass, Donner Pass, Delaware Water Gap, Cumberland Gap, List of railroad crossings of the North American continental divide, Moffat Tunnel, Soldier Summit, Utah, Tennessee Pass, Rollins Pass, Snoqualmie Pass, White Pass, Monida Pass, Alpine Tunnel, Kenosha Pass, Raton Pass, Boreas Pass, Stevens Pass, Marias Pass, San Gorgonio Pass, Emigrant Gap, Altamont Pass, Marshall Pass, Fremont Pass, Tehachapi Pass, Beckwourth Pass. Excerpt: Stampede Pass is a mountain pass through the Cascade Range just south of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington. The pass was discovered by Virgil Bogue, a civil engineer working for the Northern Pacific Railway. (Bogue went on to become chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad and later the Western Pacific Railroad.) Below is Bogue's report, written in January, 1881, from the collection of Robert A. Robey, the Northern Pacific's roadmaster at Auburn, Washington, in charge of the line across Stampede Pass throughout the 1960s. About January 1 of 1881, I received instructions from Colonel Isaac W. Smith to explore Tacoma Pass, which had been discovered by J.T. Sheets in the Autumn previous, and the range to the north of that pass to some point, which would cover all possible passes, that might lead out of the Green River, Washington in that direction. In the Autumn previous, four cabins had been built by a party under Colonel Smith's direction in suitable localities, between Thorpe's Prairie, subsequently known as Supply Camp, and a point four or five miles west of Tacoma Pass. A party of three or four men, well supplied with provisions, had been left at Thorpe's Prairie during the winter, with instructions to be ready for any orders they might receive. When we left Tacoma, therefore, to begin the exploration, orders were sent to these men to cross the range, and build a fift...