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It's simple: John Stevens stumbles across Marias Pass, and suddenly James Hill is a genius. Without Marias Pass, the GN would have been BY FAR the worst of the Northern transcons in terms of profile and alignment, worse than the Northern Pacific, worse than the Milwaukee, worse than the Union Pacific. Hill got lucky that one time, and that plus his feeding off the NP land grants over the years was enough to carry the GN over what was undoubtedly THE WORST crossing of the Cascades via Stevens Pass. <br /> <br />(Well, would you look at that! The whole history of the GN summed up in one consise paragraph. Betcha ya'll can't do that!)
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