Maybe someone can help me with a route out of Denver. I went through there 40 years ago and cannot remember the way. All I remember is on part of the trip the road looked down at a railway and a river. We were in the mountains and there were few towns. There were even unattended fuel stations where you fed your money into a machine and it would allow you to pump that much gas into your car. Hope someone can kick start an old memory.
What you describe sounds like Colorado Highway 72. The towns it goes through include Pine Cliff, still a small mountain town. At one point you look down on the river, the railroad tracks, and a railroad tunnel. The railroad is the one that goes from Denver to Winter Park and beyond to Salt Lake.It was (and may still be) owned by the Denver & Rio Grand RR. Highway 72 runs into Highway 119. If you turn left, you go to Blackhawk and Central City, now gambling towns. If you turn right, you go to Boulder, via Rollinsville (where you can turn off and go see the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel) and Nederland. (Gloria, wife of Jim)
michael8rc wrote: Maybe someone can help me with a route out of Denver. I went through there 40 years ago and cannot remember the way. All I remember is on part of the trip the road looked down at a railway and a river. We were in the mountains and there were few towns. There were even unattended fuel stations where you fed your money into a machine and it would allow you to pump that much gas into your car. Hope someone can kick start an old memory.
If it was forty years ago it was likely I-70 prior to the Eisenhower Tunnel, which was completed in 1979 almost thirty years ago.
Give us a little more info on where you are headed – lots of beautiful drives out of Denver.
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From the history of the Eisenhower Tunnel – Guess this makes us both right. I should have said the Tunnel, as we know it today, to be a little more correct. Either way it was not there 40 years ago. Again either way we have no idea where he drove if I were him I’d just go back and drive all of the roads in and around Denver as they are all great drives.
The tunnel was originally designed as a twin bore
tunnel. Construction on the first bore (Eisenhower
Tunnel) was completed on March 8, 1973, 6 years
construction time. Construction on the second bore
(Johnson Tunnel) was completed on December 21,
1979, 4 years construction time. When the first bore
was completed on March 8, 1973, it contained two
traffic lanes and was used both for eastbound and
westbound traffic. Upon completion of the second
bore, which opened on December 29, 1979, it also
contained two lanes, all eastbound traffic was placed
through the second bore and all the westbound traffic
was then placed in the first bore.
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