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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 Moffat Tunnel eliminated 10,800 degrees of curvature along the Rollins Pass route. [186] Several locations for the Moffat Tunnel were scouted prior to the selection of the present-day location; one possible location was identified at high altitude between Yankee Doodle Lake and the Forest Lakes. [187] Plans to build a longer tunnel at a ...
Once the Moffat Tunnel and Dotsero Cutoff were constructed, the line through Tennessee Pass became a secondary route. The Moffat Tunnel route had a maximum grade of 2%. The west side of the Tennessee Pass route has grades up to 3%. However, the east side of the Tennessee Pass has a maximum grade of only 1.4%.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Central Corridor is a rail line operated by the Union Pacific Railroad from near Winnemucca, Nevada to Denver, Colorado in the western United States. [1] The line was created after the merger with the Southern Pacific Transportation Company by combining portions of lines built by former competitors.
The Moffat Tunnel Improvement District was an independent entity of the State of Colorado (USA) created to build and manage the Moffat Tunnel, a railroad and water tunnel under James Peak and Rollins Pass . The district had the authority to sell bonds backed by real estate taxes in the counties served by the Denver and Salt Lake Railway, which ...
Map of D&RGW and WP routes (c. 1914). The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting mark DRGW), often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge line running south from Denver, Colorado, in 1870.
This is a route-map template for the Moffat Tunnel Route, a Union Pacific railway line in Colorado. For information on using this template, refer to Template:Routemap . For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue .
In the town, the population was spread out, with 21.1% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 34.2% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 107.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males.