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Entrance to the Carlton tunnel in 1932, in the snow.
The Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route. It connected Aspen and Leadville.
The tunnel was abandoned following Colorado Midland's 1897 bankruptcy and was converted to one-way auto traffic in 1922 as the Carlton Tunnel, a toll tunnel carrying then-State Highway...
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"Working on car on way to Glenwood" - Alda Borah 1917. Two men are looking under the hood of a car on the narrow dirt road winding through Glenwood Canyon. The drive to Glenwood Springs was an all-day adventure that required a few stops along the way. The body of water in the back would have been the Grand River at the time, later renamed to the Colorado River. In the left background, a utility pole can be seen along the railroad tracks across the...
