Tag: union pacific
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Great train linkup: New chapter for Pueblo as the Union Pacific gets a newly milled rail
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Some 144 years after Pueblo’s Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. forged its first steel rail for the Union Pacific Railroad, UP’s top executive was back in Pueblo last week to receive a second, ceremonial rail. That transaction, which took place in a newly opened mill on CF & I’s historic site, cemented Colorado’s relationship with…
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New Colorado passenger rail project would cover old footprint
In 1900, an adventurous tourist could buy one train ticket in Chicago that would take them all the way to the top of Pikes Peak. The first long leg might take them through the Eastern Plains, stopping at towns that owe their existence to the whims of the railroad builders. Just as Pikes Peak came…
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Passenger rail advocates push state to connect southern, western Colorado
EAGLE COUNTY • Passengers or petroleum products? That’s one of the key questions being bandied about in a renewed effort to revive part of the long-dormant Tennessee Pass rail line linking southern Colorado to the state’s Western Slope. As the Polis administration continues to focus almost exclusively on planning for passenger rail in the northern Front…
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Federal transportation bill could help make Front Range passenger rail a reality
The long-term vision to bring passenger rail to the Colorado Front Range got a bit more validation Thursday from Amtrak. Amtrak, the quasi-public national rail corporation, identified a new passenger rail line from Cheyenne to Pueblo in its 15-year plan to add more than 30 new routes and serve up to 160 new communities, depending…