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The Hagerman Tunnel was a 2,161 ft (659 m) railroad tunnel crossing the Continental Divide in Colorado at an altitude of 11,528 ft (3,514 m). Constructed in 1887 by the Colorado Midland Railroad and named for Midland officer James John Hagerman, it was replaced by the Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel in 1893. There was a 1,084 ft (330 m) wooden trestle ...
Alpine Tunnel is a 1,772 ft (540 m) narrow gauge railroad tunnel located east of Pitkin, Colorado, on the former Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad route from Denver to Gunnison. At an elevation of 11,523 feet (3,512 m), it was the first tunnel constructed across the Continental Divide in Colorado and was the highest railroad tunnel in ...
Named after Colorado railroad pioneer David Moffat, the tunnel's first official railroad traffic passed through in February 1928. The Moffat Tunnel finally provided Denver with a western link through the Continental Divide, as both Cheyenne, Wyoming , to the north and Pueblo to the south already enjoyed rail access to the West Coast .
Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. [1] At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wood trestle. [1] [8] [10] [11] Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed.
Fallen Southern Pacific Railroad cars in Carrizo Gorge, 2010.. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company traces its origins back to December 14, 1906, when entrepreneur John D. Spreckels announced he would form the San Diego and Arizona (SD&A) Railway Company and build a railroad to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific (SP) lines ...
Busk–Ivanhoe Tunnel was a 9,394 ft (2,863 m) long railroad tunnel at an elevation of 10,953 ft (3,338 m) in Colorado.It was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route.
Things seem to wash away here," co-owner Melissa Strukel said recently. ... That's when a San Diego magnate named John Spreckels opened his "impossible railroad," running tracks through Jacumba on ...
Built to replace the wrecked #4 using the specifications of the original larger engines. #4 Was sent to the Colorado Railroad Museum after retirement in October 1968. It was then traded for #1 in November 1979 and steamed up again for a number of years before being loaned to the Grand Canyon Railway during renovations. 5 4/1901