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The Red Mountain Expressway Cut, also known as the Red Mountain Geological Cut, is a section of Red Mountain that was blasted and removed in the 1960s to allow the Red Mountain Expressway to enter downtown Birmingham, Alabama. This highway links Birmingham with its southern suburbs of Homewood, Mountain Brook, and Vestavia Hills. It has spurred ...
Oak Mountain Tunnel a rail tunnel on an active Norfolk Southern rail line. In Shelby County. [11] Palisade Tunnel, a 400-foot-long (120 m) road tunnel on the Homewood side of Red Mountain. The one-way tunnel provides west-bound access to Palisades Boulevard from Oxmoor Road. [12]
Red Mountain Pass elevation 11,018 ft (3,358 m) is a mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains of western Colorado in the United States. The pass straddles a divide that separates Ouray and San Juan counties. The pass is named for the nearby Red Mountain on the northeast side of the pass. The name is derived from the iron oxide laden rock that ...
The expressway was largely built over the former path of 26th Street North and South. It runs through the Red Mountain Expressway Cut, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. The freeway generally carries three lanes for travel in each direction and carries traffic for both U.S. Route 31 (US 31) and US 280. From its southern terminus ...
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – US 550 Red Mountain Pass between Silverton and Ouray is back open after being closed due to a rockfall. Officials say a rockfall happened November 13, around 2:30 a.m. Crews ...
Idarado Mine trestle Mine waste, below the Yankee Girl mine on Red Mountain No. 2 near Guston.. The Idarado Mine was a mining operation in the San Juan Mountains of Ouray County, Colorado near the now-ghost town of Guston, producing primarily lead, zinc and silver along with small amounts of gold and copper.
The road ascends several switchbacks, or S-curves, past the Idarado mining operation to the 11,018-foot (3,358 m) summit of Red Mountain Pass, providing views of Red Mountain and several ghost towns. Back into the San Juan National Forest the highway descends through the Chattanooga Valley to Silverton .
In 1980 the cavity produced by the panel caving broke through to the surface, producing a large glory hole (subsidence) on the side of Red Mountain. The ore is carried by a 15-mile (24 km) conveyor belt system extending through a 10-mile (16 km) tunnel beneath the Continental Divide and then five miles (8 km) overland to the ore processing mill ...