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Bookmark or Share- Colorado passenger rail project moves forward as state reaches deal on ...At 9,200 feet, the 6.3 mile-long Moffat Tunnel is the highest railroad tunnel in the United States and the highest point on Amtrak’s national network. It connects Gilpin and Grand counties and ...
- New Moffat Tunnel deal moves daily passenger train to mountain ...Colorado state officials and the Union Pacific Railroad reached a tentative agreement on the future of the 100-year-old Moffat Tunnel — and, in the process, set the stage to expand passenger …
- The Moffat Tunnel - Moffat Road Railroad MuseumBuilt from 1923 to 1928 to eliminate the very costly and dangerous “Hell Hill” that the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad went over at Rollins Pass elevation of 11,663 ft. The tunnel is 6.2 miles long and was the longest tunnel in North America. It is now the third longest.
- Moffat Tunnel - WikipediaThe 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.
- Moffat Tunnel | ASCE - American Society of Civil EngineersThe 6.2-mile rail tunnel, the longest in the Western Hemisphere at the time, opened a new transportation artery through the Rockies and shaved 173 miles off the trip from Denver to Salt Lake City. The tunnel's pioneer bore doubled as an aqueduct that carried water across the divide to Denver, increasing the city's water supply by 30 percent.
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