People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — Opened After Five Years. [ARTICLE]

Opened After Five Years.

Denver, Colo., June 26.—The Alpine tunnel on the South Park road, said to be the highest railroad tunnel in the world, was reopened yesterday. It has been snowed up the last five years. The tunnel is at an altitude of 11,660 feet, is 1,776 feet long, and was bored nine years ago at a cost of >260,000.