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...fixed charges for three years. Given a year's time, however, Proprietor James thinks he can pull it through alive. The 200-mile link he built in California to connect Western Pacific with Great Northern, completed in 1931, has not yet revealed its full traffic possibilities. The Dotsero cutoff west of Denver, to be finished this year, is expected to direct transcontinental traffic to the Denver & Rio Grande-Western Pacific route (TIME...
Dotsero to Orestod. Carried over from last year, however, is the construction of one new line which will make the 1934 total more than half again as big as that of 1933. This is the 38-mi. Dotsero Cutoff, now 85% completed. Built largely with RFC funds, it will run from Dotsero, Col. on the Denver & Rio Grande Western to Orestod (Dotsero backward) on the Denver & Salt Lake. The Dotsero Cutoff will finally put to more than nominal use the famed Moffat Tunnel just west of Denver. Commonly known as "Moffat's Folly" or "The Gateway to Nowhere," this...
...between Orestod on the Denver & Salt Lake and Dotsero on the D. R. G. W., has been under negotiation between the two roads for nearly a year. The I. C. C. gives them until July 1930 to come to an agreement as to how they would operate the cutoff. Until this or some other connection with the D. R. G. W. is made, the Denver Salt Lake's Moffat tunnel remains an impressive portal to nowhere...