Rating:
66009
{0}%
No votes cast
GN - Haskell Pass Tunnel
Description
1400' long tunnel on the original 1892 GN alignment that traveled via Kalispell and Haskell Pass. Abandoned in 1902 in favor of the Kootenai River route through Whitefish due to operational difficulties with this tunnel and its surroundings. Oddly enough, when a large portion of the 1902 route was to be submerged by the Libby Dam, the 1968-70 present-day alignment through the Flathead Tunnel re-used some of the 1892 route along the Fisher River & Wolf Creek.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Tunnel on Great Northern Railway
- Location
- Flathead County, Montana
- Status
- Partially Collapsed
- History
- Built 1892, abandoned 1902
- Railroad
- - Great Northern Railway (GN)
- Design
- Tunnel
- Dimensions
-
Total length: 1,400.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +48.16231, -114.74780 (decimal degrees)
48°09'44" N, 114°44'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/667471/5336793 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Pleasant Valley Mountain
- Inventory number
- BH 66009 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 14, 2015: Added by Ian Martin