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AM - Winslow Tunnel
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel on Arkansas & Missouri (formerly Frisco) Railroad in Winslow
- Location
- Winslow, Washington County, Arkansas, and Crawford County, Arkansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built between 1880 and 1882 and enlarged in 1968. At 1735 ft. in elevation it's the highest pass between the Rockies and Appalachians
- Builder
- - Cameron and Halby
- Railroads
- - Arkansas & Missouri Railroad (AM)
- St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (SLSF; Frisco)
- Design
- Tunnel
- Dimensions
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Total length: 1,702.0 ft.
Deck width: 24.0 ft.
- Also called
- AM - Boston Mountain Tunnel
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.79668, -94.13212 (decimal degrees)
35°47'48" N, 94°07'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/397701/3961989 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Winslow
- Elevation
- 1735 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 38076 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 25, 2010: Updated by David Backlin: Added GPS
- November 13, 2008: Added by Nathan Morton
Sources
- Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
Comments
Winslow Tunnel
Highest rr pass between the Appalachians and the Rockies would be Paisano Pass, west of Alpine, Texas, at slightly more than 5000 feet elevation.
Winslow Railroad Tunnel
Originally part of the Missouri, Arkansas & Southern Railway the tunnel was constructed 19 feet high and 14 feet wide. In 1967, the tunnel was expanded to 24 feet high and 19 feet wide.
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My grandfather, Robert Pense of Winslow , Arkanasas, helped build the Winslow Tunnel. He was renowed in his community for his skill with an ax. My dad, Carl Pense, started jumping on the train in the tunnel at the age of about 12, riding to another community and buying a horse and small herd of cattle and taking them back to Winslow to sell. He moved to Illinois as a young man and became a successful farmer and livestock dealer, in spite of the fact that he never learned to read or write. Dad was killed in a truck accident in 1989 at the age of 72.