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Neguse, Bennet call for halt to BLM emergency rule aimed at increasing Utah oil-train traffic
A Trump administration scheme to jam through a big increase in Utah oil trains traveling along tracks in the narrow canyons of the upper Colorado River was met with a…
Utah residents rail against plan to pay for oil trains with federal tax-exempt bonds
Anglers fish on the Colorado River near an idle Union Pacific freight train in western Grand County in June of 2023 (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline). The group pushing for a rail…
Northwest Colorado explores nuclear waste storage with rail connectivity
An Atlas nuclear waste railcar (U.S. Department of Energy photo). Colorado has a long, dark history of failed and still highly toxic nuclear energy and weapons projects around the state,…
Lawyers fighting Utah oil trains expect Trump to issue executive order soon
Upper Gore Canyon of the Colorado River from Amtrak’s California Zephyr in March — a remote canyon where an oil spill or wildfire would be very hard to reach (David…
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…