Re: [CBQ] The Q was planning on going further west

["Richard Townsend via groups.io" <richtownsend=netscape.net@groups.io>]

Another possibility was west from Fort Collins and up the Cache La Poudre river canyon to North Park and then on to Salt Lake City. The Q did some surveying into the canyon, and the UP was concerned enough to build west from Greeley to Fort Collins , then through Bellview to the mouth of the canyon. They surveyed farther west but didn’t build (it would be difficult in the narrow canyon) and instead turned south to quarries at Stout.

A line up the Cache La Poudre would have been quintessential Colorado mountain railroading.

On Apr 30, 2023, at 1:26 PM, Rupert Gamlen <gamlenz@hotmail.com> wrote:



Tristan

I don’t know about Pueblo and Cheyenne but there was an article in Zephyr 68 on the various rumours of expansion westwards. One such rumour, referred to in the article, was in May 1885 -

A Proposed New Route to the Pacific. 
Rumors are again current that the Burlington will soon begin work on its extension to the Pacific ocean. The latest route mapped out for the road from Denver is through Boulder Canyon, thence into Middle Park, tunneling the Continental divide under James Peak. This tunnel will be 9,000 feet long, the longest west of the Mississippi river. It strikes the Grand River Valley several miles below the mouth of the Blue, thence it proceeds down the Grand to Grand Junction, and through Utah and Nevada to California. Some work has been done on the grade in the Boulder Canyon and Middle Park. The tunnel through James Peal will take at least two years to build.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

 

From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Tristan
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2023 5:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] The Q was planning on going further west

 

All,

I hate to dig this thread up but I wanted to revisit this thread considering I took down my layout this fall and have always been interested in mountain railroading.  Would anyone want to speculate what a proposed route might have taken past Pueblo or Cheyenne like Hol mentioned if the CB&Q had continued West?

Thanks
Tristan

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