- 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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tracklength = convert|9394|ft|m
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hielevation = convert|10953|ft|m
lowelevation= |Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was a 9,394 ft (2,863 m) long railroad
tunnel at an elevation of 10,953 ft (3,338 m) inColorado . It was built by theBusk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for theHagerman 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.References
External links
* [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
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