Also the southern pacific General Electric motives are the last new locomotives for the southern pacific

i'd watch this, the train of Lafayette, Sante Fe Mainline Memories, etc... surely made my childhood

There are a couple of competing proposals to reopen the line, but thus far nothing has happened.

@@RailwayProductions That's right. The plans to revive this rail line between Pueblo and Dotsero, Colorado, are still alive, but what version it will be is in question. The Colorado Pacific Railroad wants to lease the route to move agriculture product, while the Rio Grande Pacific has plans for a line that would carry both freight and passengers. It is still unclear if the Rio Grande Pacific plan will include the transport of oil. Union Pacific is supporting the Rio Grande Pacific version to develop service on the Tennessee Pass Line to move freight and passengers. It has agreed to lease the line to Rio and insists it is not negotiating with other companies. However, the Rio Grande Pacific is facing a lawsuit involving the Uinta Basin Railway project in Utah. Already approved by the Surface Transportation Board, the project could transport up to 350,000 barrels of waxy crude oil on Union Pacific’s Moffat Line, which is active, through Dotsero in western Eagle County and along the Colorado River en route to Denver and Gulf Coast refineries. Eagle County and other environmental groups filed the lawsuit. The question is would the transport of oil happen on the Tennessee Pass Line? Rio Grande Pacific officials insist it would not use Tennessee Pass to move oil. In fact, Rio Grande Pacific recently amended its lease with Union Pacific to exclude the presence of hazardous materials on the Tennessee Pass Line. Eagle County officials claim they have not heard from Rio Grande Pacific in months regarding the project, and Chaffee County (Colo.) commissioners wonder if the crude oil would be included under the hazardous material definition. The STB (Surface Transportation Board) rejected an expedited deal by the Colorado Midland & Pacific, which is working with the Rio Grande, to lease the Tennessee Pass Line. The Colorado Pacific Railroad said if the STB grants a lease request involving Colorado Midland & Pacific and Union Pacific it will not eliminate the underlying issue of whether crude oil, coal, or hazardous commodities traverse the line “because Union Pacific is the underlying owner of the rail and it cannot refuse to transport those commodities if someone makes a reasonable request for service.” Colorado Pacific wants the Tennessee Pass to serve as a viable alternative to Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel route for freight traffic. The company also offered a daily roundtrip passenger service between Pueblo and Minturn, Colorado, but does not believe there is enough population to support such a move and pulled the idea.

Well we will remember the line the Tennessee pass and the Royal gorge route in the past until 1997

@@MJMKZfaqr Wait a minute, Matthew. Jack Williams told me that the process of the Tennessee Pass line being revived is already underway. It turned out that the line through the Moffat Tunnel can't handle anymore of the increasing traffic and the officials have decided to re-open Tennessee Pass.

@@andrewcrumb8027 oh I am sorry but it was reopening since 1997

Hope you enjoy it

Maybe the train is returning to Denver

Thank you

No, that's #9049.

@@andrewcrumb8027 oops

I hope so too, Brian. If they'll ever come to a good decision, it will be used again.

A lot railroads have interest in it as of now, Omnitrax, Colorado Pacific, and even a Utah coal railroad I think?

@Jack Williams That's excellent news!

@Jack Williams Awesome!

@Jack Williams Thank you for the good news.

That’s because the excursion train didn’t exist when this was filmed. The excursion train came about after the line was put out of service to through freight trains.

Glad you like it

With the Union Pacific and the southern pacific running on this line in Colorado looks fabulous!!!!

Let’s just wait and see because whatever happens is gonna happen

Me too I miss him

Yay! Thank you!

...wheres the correlation? what do ANY of your comments mean!?!?

Disney and Pixar is awesome where it started in 1980s

@oshmanhossain676 wrong topic. Just saying.

Yes, UP bought SP

@@RailwayProductions and then what did they merge into?

@@RailwayProductions do you know?

@@MJMKZfaqr Union Pacific

@@RailwayProductions oh just Union Pacific?

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