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Ratón Pass is a 7,834 ft (2,388 m) elevation mountain pass on the Colorado–New Mexico border in the western United States.It is located on the eastern side of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains between Trinidad, Colorado and Raton, New Mexico, approximately 180 miles (290 km) northeast of Santa Fe.
AT&SF passenger train, c. 1895 A map depicting the "Grand Canyon Route", c. 1901 AT&SF pass from 1923 Scene from the filming of The Harvey Girls (1946) The San Francisco Chief crossing the Muir Trestle in the 1950s The exterior of a Hi-Level lounge on the El Capitan soon after completion in 1956 ATSF EMD F7 in classic Warbonnet livery, leading ...
The D&RG paid the Santa Fe $1.8 million (which included a $400,000 "bonus" over actual costs) for the railroad it had built in the gorge, the grading it had completed, materials on hand, and interest. Gould's plans for competitive lines and a proposed line through Raton Pass southward into New Mexico, were cancelled by the Rio Grande.
The Southern Transcon is a main line of the BNSF Railway comprising 11 subdivisions between Southern California and Chicago, Illinois.Completed in its current alignment in 1908 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, when it opened the Belen Cutoff in New Mexico (going through eastern New Mexico, northwestern Texas, briefly part of western Oklahoma and to Kansas) and bypassed the steep ...
Washington County Railroad: Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway: 1892 1947 N/A Artesian Belt Railroad: MP: 1908 1920 San Antonio Southern Railway: Asherton and Gulf Railway: MP: 1909 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Asphalt Belt Railway: MP: 1923 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: ATSF ATSF 1965 1996 Burlington ...
Washington County, Arkansas – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [31] Pop 2010 [32] Pop 2020 [33 ...
The byway follows the Santa Fe National Historic Trail through southeastern Colorado and connects to the 381-mile (613 km) Santa Fe Trail Scenic Byway in New Mexico at Raton Pass, a National Historic Landmark at elevation 7,834 feet (2,388 m).
The railroad, primarily used to facilitate the trade of buffalo hides and cattle, expanded south over Raton Pass and Glorieta Pass, reaching Santa Fe and Albuquerque in 1880. [ 1 ] In the early 20th century, the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad wished to find an alternative route to its existing mainline over Raton and Glorieta Passes, to ...