Tunnel No. 2, 2 Miles above Yale
BCA Catalogue No. HP055415
BCA Call No. C-07851

There were 4 tunnels within two miles up from Yale, each requiring more or less digging and blasting. (Tunnel No. 5, further up the line, was changed into a cutting and Tunnel No. 6 was usually referred to as 'The Big Tunnel.'

Tunnel No. 2 was the first tunnel to be breached, and The Inland Sentinel reported the story on September 30, 1880.

According to The Inland Sentinel (September 23, 1880):

No. 2 tunnel is a short distance further up the road; it is 350 feet in length, but the rock is much easier than the first tunnel. There is only about 25 feet to put through an 8 x 8 hole, which is expected to pass day-light this week; after that the regular 21 x 22 size, for cars to pass, will be cut. The nature of the rock in No. 2 admits of good progress by hand drills. A force of men are kept for the shifts and all appears to go business-like. It is true the approaches to this tunnel, especially, look dangerous, from hanging rocks up the mountain side, and it requires workmen to be very cautious.

The same photograph is in the Vancouver Public Library (#399).