Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel

Infobox tunnel
name = Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel


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line = Colorado Midland Railroad
location = Hagerman Pass
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status = closed to traffic, used as a water tunnel
open = 1893
close = 1943
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Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was a 9,394 ft (2,863 m) long railroad tunnel at an elevation of 10,953 ft (3,338 m) in Colorado. It was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route.

The tunnel was briefly abandoned following Colorado Midland's 1897 bankruptcy, but returned to use a few years later. ["NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.; The Federal Receivership for the Colorado Midland Ended -- Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel Abandoned" (1897-11-02). "The New York Times": 11.]

It was converted to auto traffic in 1922 as the Carlton Tunnel, a toll tunnel carrying then-State Highway 104, closing in 1943 after a tunnel collapse.

Since 1962, the tunnel has been used as part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project to carry water across the Continental Divide. It presently moves water between Ivanhoe Lake and Busk Creek.

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* [http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00073241+MCC-3241 Photo of the eastern flank of Hagerman Pass during construction] , 1891
* [http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?20030274+CHS-B274 Photo of the tunnel's west portal as a rail tunnel] , between 1890 and 1910
* [http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00007261+OP-7261 Photo of the tunnel's east portal as an auto tunnel] , 1929