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Article: MOVING AND SHAKING A MOUNTAIN WELL-CONNECTED DENVER HAS MOFFAT TUNNEL TO THANK.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- January 26, 1999
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Byline: Joe Garner News Staff Writer
A century ago, railroads, rather than airplanes, linked Denver to the world.
But a grievous problem frustrated the movers and shakers of the day: Railroads could not conquer the high mountain passes, so Denver remained marooned on a spur to transcontinental main lines.
Denver's isolation wouldn't end until the Moffat Tunnel, a 6.2-mile bore under the Continental Divide, opened in 1928. Seventy years later, the engineering triumph is better-known as the last tunnel on the Winter Park Ski Train's haul from Denver's Union Station to the base of the ski mountain. Amtrak's California Zephyr uses the same route.
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