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Until last June the Moffat Line ran west from Denver through the Moffat Tunnel, down the western slope of the Rocky Mountains and out into the sagebrush where it stopped 346 mi. short of Salt Lake City. When Denver & Rio Grande Western completed the Dotsero Cutoff which linked the Moffat Line to its main line into Salt Lake, Denver for the first time in history was on a through transcontinental route (TIME, June...
Before Denver & Rio Grande broke ground for the Dotsero Cutoff, it bought control of the Moffat Line. But the Interstate Commerce Commission required the Denver & Rio Grande to buy any or all minority stock offered for the same fat price paid for control. For these various undertakings Denver & Rio Grande needed RFC assistance, and in a deal which the New York Herald Tribune rated as "one of the most complicated and most involved in railroad history," Mr. Jones ended up with practically all of the Moffat stock in his bulging portfolio of collateral. To "keep in touch with the situation...
...West Coast- two double-header freights loaded with Nebraska corn, Colorado coal, stoves, grits, lumber, hoboes. Instead of going around through Pueblo to the south or Cheyenne to the north, they bored under the Continental Divide, rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake, six railroad presidents and several thousand rejoicing citizens rode out on a fleet of trains, shuttled back & forth over the Cutoff, held...
...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...
Last week Denver got what it has wanted for 75 years when Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy announced that after June11, it would extend the schedule of its crack Chicago-Denver Aristocrat through the Moffat Tunnel over the Dotsero Cut-off to Salt Lake City and over the Western Pacific to San Francisco...