By David O. Williams, Real Vail; November 30, 2020
A pair of railroad companies are competing to reactivate Union Pacific’s inactive Tennessee Pass Line from Dotsero to Pueblo, using both passenger and freight service to garner community support along the approximately 208-mile stretch of track that bisects Eagle County.
In a RealVail.com exclusive that first ran in the Denver Gazette on Nov. 19, an attorney for Colorado Pacific Railroad and the company’s owner, Stefan Soloviev, outlined a plan to pump an estimated $278 million into revamping the rail line that hasn’t seen freight trains since 1997 and hasn’t had passenger service since 1964.