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Weiser vows to stay vigilant in wake of SCOTUS ruling in favor of oil trains
An oil train above the Colorado River in Eagle County last summer (David O. Williams photo). Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Thursday issued a forceful statement on the U.S.…
Colorado officials envision Mountain Rail by 2026, Denver to Boulder to Fort Collins by 2029
An RTD train departs the Westminster light-rail station as Gov. Jared Polis and state energy and transportation officials speak in 2024 (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline). About $40 million a year in…
The O. Zone: A rail study would be great, but local stops would be even better
The Winter Park Ski Train in Fraser with Winter Park ski area in the background (David O. Williams photo). The Denver Nuggets are like a ski train that just keeps…
Mountain Rail to Steamboat on track as state signs Moffat Tunnel deal with UP
Colorado will continue to lease a crucial piece of state-owned infrastructure to the Union Pacific railroad for the next 25 years in exchange for help with its plans to expand…
Colorado inks deal with Union Pacific for Moffat Tunnel use, passenger rail service
The office of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Monday issued the following press release on the signing of a lease agreement with Union Pacific Railroad to use the state’s Moffat…
Amid media ‘frenzy’, I-70 truck by train backer touts plan at Denver rail show
ROLA’s truck by train rail solution in Austria in 2019 (photo courtesy of ROLA blog). Retired Amtrak conductor Brad Swartzwelter has achieved minor celebrity since a story on his truck…
Conductor who revived ski train wants to fix I-70 for snow riders with truck-by-train rail bridge
Brad Swartzwelter during his working days as conductor of the Winter Park Express Ski Train (courtesy photo). The longtime Amtrak train conductor credited with crafting a business plan that helped…
The O. Zone: Riding that train, high on disdain for Trump’s treatment of Ukraine
Glenwood Canyon from the California Zephyr on Monday (David O. Williams photo). A little over seven months ago I was at my mom’s house in Birch Bay, Washington, when I wrote…
Rail advocates push for passenger line to southeast, west of Eagle County Airport
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…
The O. Zone: Quick hits on pavement paralysis, powder in paradise, patrollers
O. in the zone on Seldom at Vail on Saturday (KKW iPhone pic). Once in a while I do a bullet points O. Zone to highlight a bunch of things…