The sight of a passenger train or coal train rumbling through the west end of the Moffat Tunnel at Winter Park Resort is a welcome sight for many. Built in 1927 to cut through the Continental Divide, ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado state officials and the Union Pacific Railroad reached a tentative agreement on the future of the 100-year-old Moffat Tunnel — and, in the process, ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - A new agreement between the State of Colorado and the Union Pacific that will allow more passenger trains to use the Moffat Tunnel was announced on Monday, Dec. 22nd.

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 passenger rail service ...

Nearly 100 years after it was first negotiated, a new contract for rail use of the Moffat Tunnel is likely to be announced in the coming weeks. The Moffat Tunnel, which connects Gilpin and Grand ...

Colorado officials reached an agreement announced this week allowing Union Pacific Railroad to lease the Moffat Tunnel for another 25 years. Union Pacific has paid Colorado $12,000 a year under a ...

Colorado will be able to run a passenger rail service between Denver and Craig for the next 25 years without paying a fee for use of the tracks under a newly agreed upon deal between the state and ...