Homestake Pass

Homestake Pass

Infobox Mountain Pass
Name = Homestake Pass
Photo = Homestake_Pass.jpg
Caption = Marker placed along the former Northern Pacific Railway’s crossing of Homestake Pass.
Elevation = convert|1929|m|ft|0|disp=/|abbr=on
Location = Montana, USA
Range = Rocky Mountains
Coordinates = coord|45|55.3|N|112|25.2|W|type:pass
Topographic

Traversed by = Interstate 90 and BNSF Railway (inactive).

Homestake Pass is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the United States. It sits on the continental divide on the border between Jefferson County, Montana and Silver Bow County, Montana, six miles south-southeast of Butte, Montana in Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest at a height of convert|6329|ft. The pass was discovered by Edwin Harrison McHenry, a civil engineer working for the Northern Pacific. McHenry was tasked with locating a line from the NP's main line near Logan, Montana, through to Butte.

The Northern Pacific Railway used the pass for its line from Logan, Montana to Garrison, Montana via Butte (Rocky Mountain Division, Second and Fourth Subdivisions) built in 1889. The line over the pass is currently owned by BNSF Railway, but has been inactive since 1983. This was Northern Pacific's scenic transcontinental passenger train route used by the famous "North Coast Limited".


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