In British Columbia’s Coquihalla Canyon, engineers once forced a railway through solid granite using a chain of tunnels and bridges suspended above the river. The result was one of the most dramatic sections of the Kettle Valley Railway — a route built to conquer terrain that looked almost impossible to cross.

But after decades of snow, rockslides, floods and major washouts, trains stopped running through the canyon and the line was eventually abandoned. Today, the Othello Tunnels still cut through the cliffs, but the railway they were built for is gone.

This is the story of why Canada built this extraordinary route, how engineers managed to construct it, what finally killed the railway, and what remains in the canyon today.

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