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Overview
First of four tunnels on CR 371 north of Buena Vista
Location
Chaffee County, Colorado
Status
Open to one-lane traffic
History
Built 1887 by the Colorado Midland Railroad
Design
Tunnel
Dimensions
Total length: 40.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.87667, -106.14500   (decimal degrees)
38°52'36" N, 106°08'42" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory number
BH 11792 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection
Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
220

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19th Century (1,720)
Built 1887 (67)
Built during 1880s (481)
Chaffee County, Colorado (29)
Colorado (271)
Colorado Midland Railroad (5)
One-lane traffic (304)
Open (21,591)
Owned by county (14,137)
Rail-to-road (13)
Total length 25-50 feet (5,254)
Tunnel (253)

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Midland Tunnel No. 1
Posted August 28, 2007, by Robert Kasal (cherry63376 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

These tunnels were tremendous. It is a road that use to be a rail road track.

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