# Santa Fe underpass, Highway 105 (1927-28)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-underpass-highway-105-1927-28/

- Kind: Cheese factories, creameries and other works
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0916, -104.869 (from a cited description (good to a hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Built when the highway was laid through Monument in 1927-28; the girder was lettered 'THE GRAND CANYON LINE' (photograph, S-0021, p. 42).

## Where it was

'Santa Fe Railroad underpass on Highway 105 was once located just east of Washington Street' (Communities of the Palmer Divide, S-0021, p. 42); placed where the abandoned Santa Fe grade in OpenStreetMap crosses Second Street (Highway 105), about a quarter mile east of Washington, past Jefferson: the only Santa Fe crossing of Second. Good to about a hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0021: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0021
- S-0103: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0103

## Nearby

- [Monument creamery (Carlson & Frink)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-creamery-carlson-and-frink/): 0.0 mi south
- [Monument public school (1890s)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-public-school-1890s/): 0.1 mi southwest
- [Santa Fe depot, Monument (about 1887 to the 1940s)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-depot-monument-about-1887-to-the-1940s/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.1 mi southwest
- [Colonel and Mrs. Ford's home, Monument (about 1875)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/colonel-and-mrs-fords-home-monument-about-1875/): 0.1 mi west
- [Methodist parsonage (Father Dyer, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/methodist-parsonage-father-dyer-1874/): 0.1 mi west

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.