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Ruth and I visited Colorado's Royal Gorge, discovered by Zebulon Pike, and through which flows the Arkansas River, the most heavily rafted river in the United States, on business and pleasure in August, 2000 and took these photos. Hope you enjoy them! Some facts about the highest Suspension Bridge at Royal Gorge Bridge and park, Canon City, CO: • Construction on the world's highest suspension bridge began June 5, 1929, and completed Nov. 1929 • Length: 1,260 feet (384 meters) • Width: 18 feet (5 meters) • Main Span: 880 feet (268 meters) • Towers: 150 feet high (46 meters) • 2,100 strands of No. 9 galvanized wire • Weight of cables: 300 tons • 1,000 tons of steel in the floor of Bridge • Walkway: made of 1,292 planks of deck; about 250 are replaced annually • Original cost to build: $350,000 with a cost today of about $20 million • Bridge will support in excess of two million pounds • Listed on the National Historic Register About the longest single-span Aerial Tram • Built in 1968 at a cost of $350,000 • Length: 2,200 feet (671 meters) • Height above Arkansas River: 1,178 feet (359 meters) • Power: direct current motor • Auxiliary gasoline emergency standby engine • Maximum speed: 11.4 mph • Capacity of cabin: 35 passengers • Track cables weigh over seven tons each • More than two miles of cables utilized in tramway system • Safety: wind-warning gauges working at all times; tram will not operate during severe weather or gusty winds About the world's steepest Incline Railway • Construction began in 1930 and completed in 1931 • Length of incline: 1,550 feet (473 meters) • 100% grade, 45-degree angle • Powered by Otis Elevator with a completely automatic SCR drive system • Standby emergency diesel engine • Maximum speed: 11.4 mph • Rate of descent: 3 mph • Weight of cars: 4,500 lbs. • Travel time: 5.5 minutes each way • Same engineering and construction crews that built the Bridge • Safety: 19 manually operated stopping devices, also equipped with automatic governor to stop each car • Listed on the National Historic Register
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ExhibitPlus royalgorge-cablecar Ruth and I visited  Colorado's Royal Gorge, discovered by Zebulon Pike, and through which flows the Arkansas River, the most heavily rafted river in the United States, on business and pleasure in August, 2000 and took these photos.  Hope you enjoy them! Some facts about the highest Suspension Bridge at Royal Gorge Bridge and park, Canon City, CO:
• Construction on the world's highest suspension bridge began June 5, 1929, and completed Nov. 1929
• Length: 1,260 feet (384 meters)
• Width: 18 feet (5 meters)
• Main Span: 880 feet (268 meters)
• Towers: 150 feet high (46 meters)
• 2,100 strands of No. 9 galvanized wire
• Weight of cables: 300 tons
• 1,000 tons of steel in the floor of Bridge
• Walkway: made of 1,292 planks of deck; about 250 are replaced annually
• Original cost to build: $350,000 with a cost today of about $20 million
• Bridge will support in excess of two million pounds
• Listed on the National Historic Register

About the longest single-span Aerial Tram
• Built in 1968 at a cost of $350,000
• Length: 2,200 feet (671 meters)
• Height above Arkansas River: 1,178 feet (359 meters)
• Power: direct current motor
• Auxiliary gasoline emergency standby engine
• Maximum speed: 11.4 mph
• Capacity of cabin: 35 passengers
• Track cables weigh over seven tons each
• More than two miles of cables utilized in tramway system
• Safety: wind-warning gauges working at all times; tram will not operate during severe weather or gusty winds


About the world's steepest Incline Railway
• Construction began in 1930 and completed in 1931
• Length of incline: 1,550 feet (473 meters)
• 100% grade, 45-degree angle
• Powered by Otis Elevator with a completely automatic SCR drive system
• Standby emergency diesel engine
• Maximum speed: 11.4 mph
• Rate of descent: 3 mph
• Weight of cars: 4,500 lbs.
• Travel time: 5.5 minutes each way
• Same engineering and construction crews that built the Bridge
• Safety: 19 manually operated stopping devices, also equipped with automatic governor to stop each car
• Listed on the National Historic Register

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