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The Royal Gorge. The Rio Grande built a rail line thru this ever-narrowing canyon to get to Tennessee Pass, their southern route over the continental spine. After the merger with Union Pacific, the UP stopped using Tennessee Pass due to it’s extreme 3% grade and helper locomotives required. It was more economic to route traffic over the Moffatt tunnel route out of Denver, with much easier grades of 2%. Now the Royal Gorge is the home of the Canon City & Royal Gorge excursion trains through this hidden beauty.
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