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D&RGW Train No. 1. The Royal Gorge Route Railroad is a heritage railroad based in Cañon City, Colorado.A 1950s-era train makes daily 2-hour excursion runs from the Santa Fe Depot through the Royal Gorge along a famous section of the former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
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Royal Gorge Park was then created. [7] In 1929 Cañon City authorized the building of the Royal Gorge Bridge, which at 955 feet (291 m) above the river held the record of highest bridge in the world from 1929 to 2001. The bridge is the centerpiece of Royal Gorge Bridge and Park, an amusement park with rides and attractions on both sides of the ...
Incline Railway (located in Royal Gorge Bridge & Park) (separate 2 ft gauge railway named Silver Rock Railway also present) (closed) Little Book Cliff Railway (defunct) Manitou Incline (defunct) Midland Terminal Railway (converted to standard gauge) (defunct) Rio Grande Southern Railroad (defunct) Silverton, Gladstone and Northerly Railroad ...
This section supports extensive whitewater rafting, including The Numbers (near Granite, Colorado), Brown's Canyon, and the Royal Gorge. At Cañon City, Colorado, the Arkansas River valley widens and flattens markedly. Just west of Pueblo, Colorado, the river enters the Great Plains.
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The photo is from the Royal Gorge route and is circa 1917. The original east-west main line of the Denver & Rio Grande, constructed in the 1870s and 1880s, was built as a narrow-gauge railroad, with the rails spaced three feet apart. The line ran from Denver south to Pueblo, and then turned west through the Royal Gorge to Salida.
The 12 mi (19 km) of the Tennessee Pass line through the Royal Gorge is currently operated by the Royal Gorge Route Railroad, who operates excursion trains out of Cañon City. On July 10, 2012, part of the old tunnel collapsed, creating a sinkhole that damaged U.S. Highway 24 and forced its temporary closure between Redcliff and Leadville. The ...