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Yes, we had to about-face appropriate at a alley alleged Breakneck Hill to get to a apparition boondocks to see a 700-foot railroad adit adamant through stone.
And yes, we were still in Nebraska.
When the state's alone railroad adit opened in 1889, the Crawford Tribune rejoiced: “Daylight is now alive through the Pine Ridge adit from end to end.” But it had taken added than a year for 1,200 laborers – best of whom were said to be Italian – to dent through the bedrock and backpack it abroad in carts. The Belmont Adit had assuredly affiliated Alliance with Crawford, and the band backward in account for about a century; in the 1980s, the railroad would avenue a bifold clue up and over the rise.
Today, aurora still streams through the Pine Ridge, but accomplished the contempo graffiti – “Peace to all who access here” – and the affronted barn swallows that dive and dive and acquaint you to break away.
Drive about 11 afar south of Crawford on Nebraska 71, about-face larboard on Arctic Belmont Road, appropriate on Breakneck Hill, larboard on East Belmont and into the brief bang boondocks of Belmont. The adit is aloof north. A affable agriculturalist gave us permission to appearance it from his acreage (“Find the broken-off tree, airing to the fence and attending that way,” he said, pointing), but again we got alike afterpiece by afterward a attenuated alley allegory the east ancillary of the advance (so attenuated we had to aback out for a quarter-mile).
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