Word: dotsero
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...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...
...trains go puffing through it because there are no traffic centres beyond it more important than Craig, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs (pop. 1,000). After passing through the tunnel, the Denver & Salt Lake ends at Craig, Col., without connecting with any transcontinental route. A 41-mile connecting line, the "Dotsero cut-off," 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...