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38°49′40″N 106°24′33″W / 38.82778°N 106.40917°W / 38.82778; -106.40917. A. Cottonwood Pass. 12,126 ft (3,696 m) Chaffee County Road 306 and Gunnison County Road 209. Until 2019, the highest unpaved road crossing of a pass in Colorado; now the highest paved crossing of Divide in US.
South Pass (elevation 7,412 ft (2,259 m) and 7,550 ft (2,300 m)) is a route across the Continental Divide, in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming.It lies in a broad high region, 35 miles (56 km) wide, between the nearly 14,000 ft (4,300 m) Wind River Range to the north and the over 8,500 ft (2,600 m) Oregon Buttes [3] and arid, saline near-impassable Great Divide Basin to the south.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly 40 million acres (62,000 sq mi; 160,000 km 2) of land ...
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The railroad tunnel is 24 feet (7.3 m) high, 18 feet (5.5 m) wide, and 6.2 miles (10.0 km) long. The apex of the tunnel is at 9,239 feet (2,816 m) above sea level. The tunnel has a gradient of 1 in 125 (0.8%). [3] As of 1989, the Moffat was the fourth-longest railroad tunnel in North America.
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The Glenwood Springs station is a railway station in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It is served by Amtrak 's California Zephyr, which runs between Chicago and Emeryville, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area [ 4] and is an overnight stop on Rocky Mountaineer's Rockies To Red Rocks luxury train service between Denver Colorado and Moab Utah.