The Big Hill on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line in British Columbia, Canada, was the most difficult piece of railway track on the CPR's route. [1] It was in the rugged Canadian Rockies west of the Continental Divide of the Americas and Kicking Horse Pass.

Big Hill is a federally-controlled underground petroleum storage site, one of four in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve program of the US Government. Along with another site in Texas (the Bryan Mound site near Freeport), and two in Louisiana, these sites can hold over 700 million barrels of crude, equivalent to two months of domestic consumption.

Emergency crude oil is stored at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in underground salt caverns at four major oil storage facilities in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, two sites in Texas (Bryan Mound and Big Hill), and two sites …

Oct 13, 2022 · After a number of train derailments and some deaths on the Big Hill, a new workaround had to be found to make the trip across the Rockies more viable for serious trade and transportation. A...

May 9, 1993 · Hiked up the Big Hill to capture an Eastbound monster Intermodal and Autorack train passing through the 40 meter long "Nose Tunnel" in Mount Stephen and then through the Mount Stephen snowshed.

All four Big Hill Preserves support sustainable cattle grazing by local ranchers Vision. The Big Hill Preserves were the result of a shared vision to permanently protect critical lands in the Raccoon Creek (formerly Coon Creek) and Bear River watersheds.

Big Hill Salt Dome (Big Hill Oil Field), Hamshire, Jefferson County, Texas, USA : A salt deposit located about 12.6 km (7.8 miles) SSE of Hamshire. Facility is now a strategic oil reserve storage facility.

The grade from Field, British Columbia up to Kicking Horse Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline was once the steepest and most hazardous in North America. It was called the "Big Hill" and big it was. CPR used it from 1885 until 1909 when …

This report summarizes recent reviews, observations, and analyses believed to be imperative to our understanding of the recent two million cubic feet salt fall event in Big Hill Cavern 103, one of the caverns of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).

Field Hill is a steep portion of the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City located near Field, British Columbia. Field was created solely to accommodate the Canadian Pacific Railway 's need for additional locomotives to be added to trains about to tackle both Field Hill, and the Big Hill.