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Down the Line: Colorado River headwaters ground zero for inevitable train derailments, oil spills in local streams
An aerial view of the aftermath of the train derailment and chemical fire in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023. (National Transportation Safety Board) At 88 miles long, with a…
Down the Line: A hard look at how oil train spills would impact canyons of the Colorado River
Passengers on Amtrak’s California Zephyr sit in the sightseer lounge on June 5, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) BURNS, Colo. — Beneath the limestone cliffs, the trunk of a lone, dead…
Down the Line: Difference between God and the railroad? ‘God might answer your prayers’
A flare stack burns at a natural gas facility in Garfield County on May 16, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) DE BEQUE, Colo. — As they head east out of the…
Down the Line: Utah oil train route would retrace Colorado railroad history through Grand Valley
A coal train crosses the Colorado-Utah border on May 15, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) GRAND VALLEY, Colo. — Five miles due south of the point where Interstate 70 crosses the…
Down the Line: A closer look at the Colorado, local route for Utah’s planned deluge of Uinta Basin, waxy crude oil trains
A train of mostly empty tank cars derailed outside Suncor Energy’s oil refinery in Commerce City on June 16, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) A proposal to build a new short-line…
Soloviev attorney: billionaire ‘has no further interest in purchasing’ Tennessee Pass rail
A Union Pacific oil train on UP’s Central Corridor near the Colorado River in Palisade on Saturday, May 6, 2023 — four days after a railcar fire in the same…
Colorado Attorney General Weiser warns feds against funding oil trains through Eagle County
The dormant Tennessee Pass rail line along the Eagle River with Vail’s Game Creek Bowl on the horizon. Eagle County officials worry oil train traffic along the nearby Colorado River…
Colorado opposition to Uinta Basin oil trains keeps chugging along at Glenwood Canyon event
From left, Glenwood Springs Mayor Jonathan Godes, state Sen. Dylan Roberts, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie participate in a press conference…
Bennet, Neguse target EPA in efforts to keep Utah oil trains away from banks of Colorado River
Two of Colorado’s Democratic members of Congress on Tuesday called on yet another federal agency to put the brakes on a proposed Utah railway that could send up to five…
Conservation groups urge Buttigieg to reject Utah oil train request for $2 billion in tax-exempt bonds
The Center for Biological Diversity on Tuesday issued the following press on its efforts, along with more than 150 conservation and climate groups, to get U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg…