Jackfish Curve is a 180-degree turn around the end of an inlet on Lake Superior known as Tunnel Bay, after the tunnel that the train is emerging from at the bottom of the photo. The water in the background is Jackfish Lake. Although the line is level here, a helper engine is on the front of the train to get over the grades east of Lake Superior.
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Construction of the railroad around Lake Superior may have cost more per mile than the initial construction over the Rocky Mountains, with some segments costing as much as $700,000 (around US$13 million today) per mile. Plus the inlet around Tunnel Bay added at least four miles to the route compared to a straight line, and there were many more such inlets along Lake Superior.
This non-railroad-issue postcard shows the tunnel at the west end of Jackfish Curve. Click image to download a 175-KB PDF of this postcard.
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Jackfish (once spelled Jack Fish) was also the name of a town just east of this curve. The last spike of the Canadian Pacific between Winnipeg and Montreal was driven here in 1885. CP then created the town to use as a coaling station for its steam locomotives. It also had a thriving fishing industry. After Diesel replaced steam however, the town disappeared. Some call it a ghost town, but judging from Google aerial photos, in fact the entire town has been bulldozed.
A black-and-white version of the menu photo was also used in Canadian Pacific advertising. Since converting color photos to black-and-white was problematic in the pre-Photoshop era, this makes me wonder if this photo is actually colorized rather than shot in Kodachrome.