Railroad Pass (British Columbia)
Railroad Pass, 1385 m (4544 ft), usually known locally as Railway Pass, is a
Pemberton Meadows area of the upper valley of the Lillooet River, via Railroad Creek, to the uppermost reaches of the Hurley River, the main south fork of the Bridge River which the Hurley joins at the settlement of Gold Bridge
.
Railroad Pass gets its name from its potential as a possible route for a railway through the Coast Mountains although no formal record of such a survey exists.Pacific Great Eastern, now a part of the Canadian National Railway conglomerate.
Railroad Pass was investigated in the 1980s as a possible extension route for
BC Highway 99 as a "back door" for the Whistler resort in case of geotechnical emergencies that would isolate the resort (a more southerly route used by Cayoosh Pass
was chosen).
A group of peaks on the north side of the pass is called the Railroad Group and includes summit-names like Locomotive Mountain, Tender, Caboose, and Handcar Peak.