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in 1881 near what was then known as Morley ("also called Red Town because all the buildings were painted red, and later renamed Romley in 1897"). A tunnel at Alpine Pass was completed in 1882 and was then the highest elevation tunnel in North America. The first train from
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The bridge has a 13.2-foot-wide (4.0 m) timber deck roadway and is 83 feet (25 m) long, with a span of 80 feet (24 m) on its Pratt trusses. It has a timber deck and stone masonry
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It was built as part of railway construction towards
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bridge that was built in 1881. It was listed on the
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Morley Bridge is located in Colorado
Romley, Colorado
38°40′30″N 106°21′53″W / 38.67508°N 106.36478°W / 38.67508; -106.36478
Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad
MPS
03000744
Romlee
Chaffee County, Colorado
Pratt truss
National Register of Historic Places
wing walls
abutments
Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad
New Jersey Steel and Iron Company
Trenton, New Jersey
Alpine Pass
Nathrop, Colorado
Gunnison, Colorado
History Colorado
Pomeroy Gulch
St. Elmo, Colorado
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Colorado


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service

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