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Boreas Pass Section House

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c. 1884. 9 miles northwest of Como (NR)

Between Como and Breckenridge, the old DSP&P rail grade was converted to a dirt auto road by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after the railroad abandoned the line in 1937. Atop 11,498-foot, blizzard-blasted Boreas Pass, a small community hung on for only a few years. Of a post office, frame depot, stone engine house, turntable, water tank, section house, and 957-foot-long snow shed, only the log section house and one cabin still stand. Both are being restored by the U.S. Forest Service.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

Boreas Pass Road
Washington Mine
Brown House Restaurant (Brown House Hotel)
Colorado Mountain College (Breckenridge School)
St. Mary's Catholic Church

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Boreas Pass Section House", [Fairplay, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-PK19.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 219-219.

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