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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 .
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 ...
Raton Pass [o] 7,834 feet 2,388 m [o] Asphalt Floyd Hill: 7,820 feet 2,384 m ... former Monarch Pass Toll Road Timberline Pass: 11,484 feet 3,500 m ...
An airplane drops fire retardant just above the Blue 2 fire near Ruidoso, New Mexico. The fire began on May 17, 2024 after lightning hit. It has continued for over a week and now sits over 7,000 ...
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 Purgatoire River rises in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains reaching an elevation of 14,053 ft (4,283 m) at Culebra Peak.The river, formed by many upstream tributaries, flows eastwards for about 40 miles (64 km) through the mountains and foothills to Trinidad at an elevation of 6,010 ft (1,830 m) where it turns to the northeast and flows across the Great Plains through ...
Currently manufactured by ThalesRaytheonSystems, the system is a long-range version of "weapon-locating radar", designed to detect and track incoming artillery and rocket fire to determine the point of origin for counter-battery fire. It is currently in service at brigade and higher levels in the United States Army and by other countries.
In 1866, he hired a tribe of Utes under Chief Conniache to build a toll road through Raton Pass. He later sold the road to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad [1] and the railroad named one of their locomotives after him. [2] He appears as a character in Flashman and the Redskins when Flashman employs him as a guide.