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Cresting Tennessee Pass

By Angela Cotey | March 29, 2021

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Steam locomotive with freight train

Rio Grande’s California Fast Freight departs Tennessee Pass station, crest of the Continental Divide, in April 1938. Big 2-8-8-2 3606 will keep the train in check on the 3 percent grade down to Minturn, Colo.

H. Kindig

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