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Colorado Central Magazine

A slow train running over Tennessee Pass

Brief by Allen Best

Transportation – November 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine

Trains have been absent on the Tennessee Pass route only three years. So when a work train eased through Red Cliff on October 9, the reaction it provoked couldn’t properly be called nostalgic. Nor, could the reaction be called excited. Even to those undisturbed by the noise, the history of chemicals spilled by derailed trains in this region make their return unwelcome.