Record Details
pages 130-131
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025bn http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,280 |
| Title | pages 130-131 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-12 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 93,613 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | Image Caption: LOOKING UP BEAVER RIVER --page break-- ward to Rogers Pass, and then descend toward Revelstoke, by means of a series of surface loops, and with many snowsheds. At a cost of $12,000,000, the summit section has since been replaced with a double track tunnel south of Rogers Pass, and under Mount Macdonald. The tunnel is just five miles long, three-fourths of a mile longer than any other tunnel in America. The new line lowers the summit elevation 539 feet, cuts out several loops... |
