Edit post

Edit your reply below.

Post Body
Enter your post below.
Actually, I think there is a move to start passenger rail service along the front range. At a NARP meeting I attended this year in Fort Worth, a speaker discussed the Prairie to Port concept or something, where a high-speed Interstate highway primarily for truckers??? was to be built between Denver and Dallas. The route was to be to the East of Denver, CS and Pueblo, to free up I-25. Rail backers say there are plans - or discussions - to add a double-track rail line along the highway. That would free up the joint line. I don't know the progress of this proposal, but it sounds like a good idea to me. Interesting, the Denver Post, during the Amtrak funding debate, opined that the Calif. Zephyr should be shut - down (no one rides that train anyway, the Post fibbed) and the money that funds that train should be shifted "to a more useful" route, DEN-Pueblo. That's the kind of misguided thinking a lot of railroaders and so-called "railfans" hold - no one rides the slow LDs. Only the short trains. Right. Tell us another one. NARP responded - I don't believe the hallowed Post ran its response - by saying it too would like additional service but the $ billions needed to upgrade the Joint Line pale compared to the not even $100 million required to fund one LD train like the great Calif. Zephyr.
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag