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The Barretts Tunnels are a pair of railroad tunnels in St. Louis County, Missouri, the first ones built west of the Mississippi River. They were built by the Pacific Railroad in 1853. [2] The tunnels were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [3]
List of railroad tunnels in the state of Missouri. Pages in category "Railway tunnels in Missouri" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
In 1963 the floor of the tunnel was lowered by 8 to 10 inches (200 to 250 mm) to allow it to accommodate autoracks. [9] [10] This work was completed in early July 1963. [11] The tunnel is owned by Ameren, who was working in 2016 with the State of Missouri to convert the line to a rail trail connected on the west end to Rock Island Trail State Park.
The Vale Tunnel is a railway tunnel south of Raytown, Missouri in the Kansas City metropolitan area.It was built by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad in 1903-1904, and became the final tunnel of four to be built on the entire Rock Island railroad, all of which were in Missouri.
The Downtown Tunnel, [1] sometimes referred to as the St. Louis Freight Tunnel, [2] is a historic railroad tunnel beneath Washington Avenue and Eighth Street in downtown St. Louis. Completed in 1874, it carried freight and passenger trains between the Eads Bridge and the rail yards in the Mill Creek Valley, bypassing busy downtown streets.
St. Louis Tunnel Railroad: 1872 1878 Tunnel Railroad of St. Louis: St. Paul and Kansas City Short Line Railroad: RI: 1911 1948 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad: Salem, Winona and Southern Railroad: 1908 1928 N/A Saline Valley Railroad: 1904 1913 Cape Girardeau Northern Railway: Salisbury and Glasgow Railroad: WAB: 1877 1877
The Eugene Tunnel is a railway tunnel in Cole County, Missouri. It was built by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (the Rock Island) in 1903, and is tunnel number three of four on this line from Kansas City to St. Louis, Missouri line. The tunnel is a pointed-arch shape, and goes west to east in direction.
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