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The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad and water tunnel that cuts through the Continental Divide in north-central Colorado.Named after Colorado railroad pioneer David Moffat, the tunnel's first official railroad traffic passed through in February 1928.
The Eisenhower Tunnel, officially the Eisenhower–Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel, [1] is a dual-bore, four-lane vehicular tunnel in the western United States, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The tunnel carries Interstate 70 (I-70) under the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains.
Alpine Tunnel: 11,523 feet (3,512 m) Alpine Tunnel, first tunnel over Continental Divide in Colorado, highest railroad tunnel and at 1,772 ft (540 m) longest narrow-gauge tunnel in North America. Tunnel abandoned since 1910, impassable, unpaved road on approaches, reconstructed telegraph office with station platform near southern (wester
(Carlton Tunnel Weston Pass: 11,921 feet 3,634 m Ophir Pass ... Continental Divide Trail Colorado Trail Browns Pass [h] 11,998 feet 3,657 m ...
It will replace the previous 99-year lease on the tunnel. ... Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Union Pacific agreed to terms for a new 25-year lease of the Moffat and binding MOU in exchange for a 25 ...
Alpine Tunnel is a 1,772 ft (540 m) narrow gauge railroad tunnel located east of Pitkin, Colorado, on the former Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad route from Denver to Gunnison. At an elevation of 11,523 feet (3,512 m), it was the first tunnel constructed across the Continental Divide in Colorado and was the highest railroad tunnel in ...
Two sides of the Great Divide Basin; Robinson is the true Divide (per USGS) Hadsell: Wyoming: 6,930 ft (2,112 m) Rollins Pass: Colorado: 11,660 ft (3,554 m) (1904), 9,239 ft (2,816 m) (1928) Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway: Union Pacific Railroad: 1904–present Original alignment replaced in 1928 by the Moffat Tunnel) Jones Pass: Colorado
By 1929, the 1.8 mile (2.9 km) East Hoosier Ditch and the 1.3 mile (2 km) West Hoosier Ditch were in operation, able to divert an aggregate 77 cubic feet per second (2.2 m 3 /s) of water across the continental divide. The City of Colorado Springs obtained the water rights to these ditches and constructed the Hoosier Pass Tunnel to replace them ...