Lower Spiral Tunnel Viewpoint

About this audio guide

This guide to the Lower Spiral Tunnel Viewpoint near Field, British Columbia opens on a construction train that went out of control on this exact grade in eighteen eighty-four, and follows the twenty five years of runaway trains, safety spurs, and extra locomotives that Canadian Pacific Railway lived with after choosing the cheaper route over the Rockies. You will hear about the watchman who worked those safety switches and the money the railway was trying to save the day it made that choice. Best heard looking down into the valley toward the tracks below.