ColoRail Newsletter May/June, 1998 Issue #25

Eagle eye of state legislature Former MoPac line a capitol buy

by Robert Rynerson

In Old West melodramas, the vil-lain tied the heroine to the rails, but the hero rescued her from certain death at the last moment. This year, the eagle-eyed hero had to rescue the rails instead.

When the State Legislator-heroes-to-be rode into town this January, it looked as though another Colorado rail line was going to become a 4-foot-Syz-inch streak of rust. Instead, they roped the recalcitrant Governor into joining 23 other states that own and lease out rail lines.

I n s i d e th is i s s u e of the Newsletter, read how the Colorado legislature identified a growing problem and acted in what should be the first step in preserving East-West rail freight service via Pueblo.

Also inside, ColoRail invites Ed Guillen, the journalist who did most to clarify rail freight issues before the broad public, to speak at its May 23 rd g e n e r a l mee t ing . Plan to attend!

KansasCity Mule is one of two trains linicing Kansas City and St. Louis with the Southwest Chief. ColoRail is woricing to improve Denver-Kansas City

service via a Thruway Bus run Denver-La Junta.

"A Voice for Colorado's Rail Passengers'

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RaW transit on tracl< in metro area by Jon Esty

Though R T D ' s ambit ious Gu ide the R ide w a s defeated at the polls last November , e lements of the plan appear to have su rv i ved and are slowly moving toward implementa-tion. Short ly after the vote, G o v e r -nor R o m e r announced that Co lo-rado would supply $80 million a s a local match for federa l funds for the construct ion of a 15 mi le light rail transit ( L R T ) line along 1-25 Corr i -dor from Broadway to L incoln A v e . , south of the D e n v e r T e c h Center .

T h i s stretch of highway, which is probably the most congested in the state, is the s c e n e of a bidirectional rush hour twice daily resulting in ex tens ive de lays to commute rs . Many non-Denver legislators, who approved a smal l portion of f lexible funding in a highway construct ion bill last y e a r ( S B - 1 ) , were outraged that this money would go for L R T . Gove rno r R o m e r and C - D O T h a v e weathered the cr i t ic ism and the pro-ject is now in the p rocess of rece iv-ing public input in the design proc-e s s portion for the Env i ronmenta l Impact S ta tement ( E I S ) which is required for projects that request federa l support.

B y volunteer ing state matching funds, the Governor set into motion a se r ies of s imi lar even t s for other corr idors. In March, J o y c e Foster ,

Lest we forget!

" It was a mistake for us to leave Wyoming, this time

we're here to stay!" James Larson,

Amtrak v.p.. on the Pioneer's Wyoming inaugural

Denve r Counc i lwoman , a long with Mayor Wel l ington W e b b ' s off ice, announced that Denve r would pro-v ide local funds for construct ion of the Denve r to DIA Air T ra i n .

In Apri l , R T D Director, Ka ren Bender , asked the R T D Board ap-proval for local funds to initiate an E I S which would lead to eventua l construct ion of L R T west of Denve r along the 13th A v e n u e Corr idor now owned by R T D . T h i s line would join the exist ing L R T at about 9th and Co l fax A v e s . and ex tend north and eas t to Denve r Union Term ina l ( D U T ) with se rv i ce to El i tch G a r d e n s , the Peps i C e n -ter, and O c e a n Journey .

T h e 8 mile Southwest L R T along S a n t a F e Dr ive from 1-25 and Broadway to Mineral A v e . south of Littleton is present ly under con-struction with complet ion expec ted to be in Ju l y , 2000 . At the present t ime, the Joint L ine is being relo-cated to m a k e way for L R T . A third t rack is being added to the Joint L ine between South Denve r and Li t t leton to a c c o m m o d a t e in-c r e a s e d freight train traff ic.

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Mountain rail proposal moves ahead

by Jon Esty

A two year study of fixed guideway tecti-nology for ttie 1-70 IVIountain Corridor is currently working its way tfirougti tfie Legis la ture ( H B - 1 3 3 5 ) . T h e Fixed Guideway Authority will review avai lable rail, monorail , suspended , and other forms of technology and will se lect a pre-ferred alternative by 2000. T h e bill then promises , though does not obligate the Legis la ture to provide $100 million to develop a prototype of a sys tem which will carry passenge rs from DIA to the Vai l Val ley along the 1-70 Corridor.

Fixed guideway technology was chosen by some 200 stakeholders who gathered in Em-pire in December as the long term preferred mode of travel for this rapidly developing corri-dor. Improvements to the highway will take place in the near future to speed traffic flow on a short term basis.

Incorporated into ffie short term plan is the possible use of passenger trains on the Moffat Line and west-em end of the Tennessee Pass Line to help alleviate corrida congestion. ColoRail members prcvided testimony and support for this tjill and many attended the December meeting in Empire.

H e r e ' s h o w to g e t info o n D e n v e r a r e a r a p i d t r a n s i t p l a n s

To be placed on mailing lists, please call:

Susan Altes, R T D , 299-2888 for Southwest Corridor construction reports.

Andrea Garc ia, R T D , 299-2404 for the West Corridor.

Dave Stevenson, CDOT, 757-9931 for the Southeast Corridor.

Mark Thomsen, RTD, 628-9000 for the 1-225 Corridor.

Dave Shelley, RTD, 299-2408 for the US-36 Corridor

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Salida writer \vamed of impacts from me^-moger ColoRail meet to hear

outspoken Post columnist by Jon Esty

E d Qui l len , c o l u m n i s t for the

Denver Post, will be the featured speaker at the S p r i n g C o l o R a i l

meet ing w h i c h will be held

S a t u r d a y , IVlay 23 , at the

Wynkoop Brewery on 18th and

W y n k o o p S t s . in L o w e r

Downtown Denver .

Jo in us just after 10 :00 a .m. for

cof fee and doughnuts first, plus the

ever- favor i te l iterature table.

Mr. Qui l len, whose co lumns appear

twice week ly , has been an ardent

crit ic of the c o n s e q u e n c e s of the

U P - S P merger.

B e s i d e s writing for the Post , Mr. Qui l len, who res ides in S a l i d a , p u b l i s h e s t h e m o n t h l y Colorado Central magaz ine which e x a m i n e s life and cu l t u re in C o l o r a d o ' s mounta in c o m m u n i t i e s . He has written ex tens ive ly about U P ' s p roposed a b a n d o n m e n t of the T e n n e s s e e P a s s L ine .

T h e meet ing w i l l

start at 10 :30AM with brief reports on l e g i s l a t i v e m a t t e r s a n d deve lopments in local and national passenge r rail.

At the conc lus ion of Mr. Qui l len 's remarks which will be approx imate ly around noon, the a t tendees will be invited to walk a c r o s s the street to D U T for a brief dedicat ion of a new arr iva l and departure board which h a s been jointed funded by Amtrak and Co loRa i l contributors. T h e r e is no cost to attend the meet ing but dona t ions to support C o l o R a i l act iv i t ies will be gratefully accep ted .

A no-host informal lunch will follow, at the Wynkoop Brewing C o .

Dark days in Omaha

In the negat ive photo below, it's

westbound train t ime in O m a h a in

October, 1997, and the Union P a -

ci f ic station still s tands m a j e s -

tic — symbol iz ing the power and

glory of the rai lway s igned into

being by Pres ident L incoln. But,

the only passenger train is on the

"wrong s ide" of the t racks — on

t ime tonight eve rywhere west on

competi tor Burl ington's l ine, while

Union Pac i f i c t rains are stuck in

rail traff ic.

Photos this issue by R. W. Rynerson

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Hard lesson of Wyco : line abandonment led to

action plan in '98 Former MoPac line gets another by Jon Esty

What was thought to be a lackluster legislat ive s e s -sion turned eventful for rail advocates with the state 's anticipated pur-chase of the 122 mile, North Avondale Jet . to Towner rai lroad line from Union Pac i f i c .

ings on their K a n s a s and Pac i f i c L ine east of Den-ver where they hope to d r a m a t i c a l l y i n c r e a s e freight se rv i ce .

Ra i l road abandonments have never been enthusi-a s t i c a l l y a c c e p t e d by Representa t ive J a c k T a y -lor (R-Steamboat Spr ings)

The rai l -r o a d , s e r v i n g C r o w l e y and Kiowa C o u n t i e s in South-east Colo-rado, was f o r m e r l y owned by the Mis-souri P a -cif ic and t h e n S o u t h e r n Pac i f ic be-fore its m e r g e r with UP.

April, 1998 photo shows area in Denver by new Elitch Gardens on Joint Line where capacity is being increased through addition of a third main track. Such improvements on main lines were expected to make several secondary lines obsolete, but on-line communities do not agree.

UP filed for abandonment of the line as soon as the U P - S P merger took place but no buyer was found for the line even with the help of Governor Roy Ro-mer's Office of Economic D e v e l o p m e n t . U P planned to use much of the rail sa lvaged from the Towner Line to build s id-

who attempted to get the Colorado Department of T ranspor ta t ion ( C - D O T ) to purchase the Walden Branch better known as the W Y C O L ine. Th i s for-mer UP branch located in Rep . Tay lo r ' s district was abandoned in 1994 and despite his efforts and the efforts of others, includ-

ing ColoRai l members, the line was eventual ly scrapped. The end of rail serv ice to this a rea land-locked an est imated 600 million tons of some of the nation's highest qual-ity low sulfur coa l .

In 1996, Rep. Tay lor sponsored a bill to study

rail aban-d o n m e n t s in Colorado a n d in 1997, co-authored a bill ( S B - 3 7 ) with S e n a -tor Dick M u t z e -baugh (R -H i g h l a n d s Ranch) to e s t a b l i s h p r o c e d u r e s for review of aban-doned rail l ines and establ ish a state rail bank for

rail line purchase. A modest $1 million was a l -located to the rail bank for its first year of opera-tion.

Rep . Tay lor , who in the meantime was joined by R e p . C a r l Mil ler (D-Leadv i l le ) and Senator

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chance at life as legislature acts UP agrees lo extend abandonment deadline as purchase advances J im Rizzuto ( D - L a Jun ta ) , began to meet in earnest with Governor Romer and members of his admini-stration in late 1997 and early 1998 when it be-came apparent that UP would be al lowed to abandoned the Towner L ine. The legislators v i e w e d l o s s of the Towner Line as just the beginning.

Other rail l ines in the state were a lso under the threat of abandonment, notably, the T e n n e s s e e P a s s Line which UP had a l r e a d y c l o s e d f rom Canon City to S a g e . Reps .Tay lo r and Miller ca l led a meeting on rai l-road abandonment for Janua ry 19 at the Capitol which was attended by 12 additional legis lators. On February 18, R e p s . T a y -lor and Miller and S e n . Rizzuto met with C - D O T o f f i c ia ls and brought along a letter s igned by eight legislators asking Bill Vidal , C - D O T ' s E x -ecutive Director, to take an act ive role in saving the Towner and T e n n e s -see P a s s routes.

When no action was forthcoming, the leg is la-tors took it upon them-se l ves to introduce a bill (HB-1395) to require C -

D O T to acqu i re the Towner Line and include a $10.4 million appropr ia-tion, U P ' s asking price for the rai lroad.

Though not enthusiast ic about this turn of events . Governor Romer did pre-vai l upon UP Pres ident , Je r ry Dav is , to extend the sa lvage deadline until the legislature had suff icient time to debate the issue and vote on the measure . Despite a heavy leg is la-

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f i ve s c h e d u l e . R e p s . Tay lor and Miller and S e n . Rizzuto were able to qu ick ly and sk i l l f u l l y move the bill through both houses of the legis-lature and five separa te committees.

K iowa County Commis-s ioners , local sh ippers , short line rai lroad opera-tors, representat ives of the cattle and wheat growers assoc ia t ions and Co loRa i l and Colorado Rai l Advisory Committee ( C O R A C ) members pro-

vided testimony and ac -tively lobbied legis lators.

By the time HB-1395 came up for its final vote in the House, 25 leg is la-tors, a full fourth of the entire Genera l Assembly , had s i g n e d on co -sponsors . T h e s e co-sponsors were not only b ipa r t i san but repre-sented all a reas of the state.

T h e measure passed final readings in the House on a 53-11 ^ vote and the Senate by a 30-4 vote. The bill was sent to the Governor on April 15 and his approval is expected.

Rai l advocates across C o l o r a d o h a v e been heartened by this re-sponse and now look for-ward to greater state in-volvement in the preser-vation of important rail corr idors. Colorado now joins 23 other states which, according to a 1996 Georg ia Dept. of Audits study, own and lease out rail l ines.

C - D O T will now formalize the arrangements with UP and will seek out a short line rai lroad to operate the l ine.

May/June , 1998 ColoRail Newsletter

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Midwest initiative scouts rail markets

by J o n E s t y

^Rehab' b o o s t s ro l l ing s t o c k

Approximately 45 m e m b e r s of the National Assoc ia t ion of Ra i l road P a s s e n g e r s ( N A R P ) gathered in Counci l B luf fs , lA, on March 28 for the annual Reg ion 10 meet ing. All of those attending resided in Iowa and Nebraska expec t for two m e m -bers from Colorado.

T h e meet ing featured a presenta-tion by J a c k Mart in, N A R P P r e s i -dent, who spoke for about 20 min-u tes then answered numerous quest ions from the aud ience for an addit ional two hours.

Mr. Martin g a v e a brief rev iew of current Amtrak operat ions and re-ported there h a v e been signif icant ga ins in r idership accompan ied by improvements in equipment rel iabil-ity, on t ime per formance, c lean l i -n e s s of c a r s , and cour tesy of on-board personnel . Many t ra ins are running full wh ich w a s borne out by the favorab le reports of those who had t rave led to the meet ing by train.

Mr. Martin attributed these deve lop-men ts to the publ ic 's percept ion that Amtrak is here to s tay a ided in large part by the recently p a s s e d T a x p a y e r Rel ief Act ( T R A ) which provided $2.2 billion to the p a s s e n -ger rai lroad for investment in cap i -tal projects. T o be included on the list, these projects had to either lev-erage other investments on a 3 to 1 bas is or create a return of at least 1 5 % annual return for Amtrak.

Mr. Martin gave some e x a m p l e s of how s o m e of the initial funds will be spent :

1.) Rehabi l i tat ion of 2 4 3 Hor izon, Amf lee t I I , and Super l iner c a r s in-c luding 31 wreck damaged c a r s . S o m e Her i tage diners will a lso be rehabi l i tated for eas tern long d is-tance se rv i ce .

2. ) P u r c h a s e of 14 tr i- level transport c a r s for autotrain s e r v i c e on the Coas t Starl ight.

3. ) P u r c h a s e of 2 4 7 roadrai lers and assor ted inves tments in stat ions na-tion-wide to faci l i tate Amt rak ' s grow-ing mail and e x p r e s s bus iness .

4. ) T r a c k and station improvements to the Lorton, V A Autotrain facil i ty to cut loading and unloading t imes f rom two hours to one.

5. ) Upgrade or complete rep lace-ment of Amt rak 's Arrow computer-ized reservat ion sys tem.

6. ) Preparat ion of t rack and station faci l i t ies for a return of passenger s e r v i c e along the F lor ida E a s t C o a s t Ra i l road between J a c k s o n -vi l le and W e s t P a l m B e a c h .

Mr. Martin c la imed N A R P cont inues to be a ve ry influential vo ice on passenge r rail i s s u e s a c r o s s the country. A recent e x a m p l e he sited w a s the effort by Missouri N A R P m e m b e r s who success fu l l y lobbied for full funding of the s ta te 's sha re of operat ing cos ts for the twice daily t ra ins between S t . Lou is and K a n -s a s Ci ty after the legis lature 's al lo-cat ion for the t ra ins had been sub-stantial ly reduced.

' $ N o t e t o m e m b e r s :

p l e a s e s a v e C o l o R a i l t h e c o s t of m a i l i n g y o u

< a r e n e w a l n o t i c e . O u r ^ t r e a s u r e r w i l l be d o i n g

j u s t t h a t , a n d S O O N .

^1 U s e t h e h a n d y f o r m o n i t h e r i g h t - h a n d p a g e , a n d

d o y o u r pa r t to a d v o c a t e 2 m o d e r n ra i l t r a n s p o r t .

At tendees a lso heard from John Wolf , Director of Media Re la t ions and Legis la t ive Communica t ions , who h a s been with Amtrak 's W a s h -ington off ice for about 14 months. Mr. Wolf rev iewed the T R A funding and deve lopments in C o n g r e s s on I S T E A renewal .

J o h n Hey, Transportat ion P lanner with the Iowa D O T , d i scussed the Midwest P a s s e n g e r Rai l Initiative Project . T h i s is a 10 state study with Ch i cago a s a hub which is cur-rently a s s e s s i n g the routes, s c h e d -u les, demand , and cos ts of a high speed passenge r rail s ys tem. T o p train s p e e d s will be 79mph on s o m e routes whi le 90 -125mph in others depending on demand and f inancial support. ^

T h e study will be ava i lab le for pub-lic comment by J u n e . Iowa is com-pleting its own study a s part of the larger project in order to determine which one of the B N S F , U P , or Iowa Intrastate (former Rock Island) l ines from Ch icago to O m a h a a c r o s s Iowa is best suited for pas-senger rail use .

ColoRail Board Members: (telephone numbers and e-mail addresses shown in parentheses)

Jon Esty, President (756-6910) Denver, (rkrza@aol.com)

Bob Rynerson, Secretary (480-5249) Denver. (ra/.rynersonOworldnet.att.net)

Hugh Wilson, Treasurer Lakewood.

Jo Campbell, Legislative Chair Denver.

Don Zielesch, Board Member Denver, (dwzl ©juno.com)

Reg Holmes, Board Member Littleton.

Jay Jones, NARP Board Member Denver. (sunjones@aol.com)

ColoRail holds Board meetings the second Monday of each month at Lim's on Blake St. in LoDo.

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Letter to the editor from Kansan gives facts Background offered on Amtrak equipment

Letter to Editor:

A s a director of N A R P Region #9, I apprec iate rece iv ing eac i i i ssue of your f ine Newslet ter. A s I w a s un-able to attend the N A R P Board meet ing in S a n t a F e last October, I enjoyed your c o v e r a g e of that meet ing. T h i s w a s the only one of f ive board meet ings I h a v e m issed in my 20 y e a r s a s a director.

I did notice one smal l error in your i ssue which I would like to correct regarding Amt rak c o a c h c a r #35002 with the sma l l s n a c k bar and seat -ing a r e a on the lower leve l where handicapped seat ing w a s once lo-ca ted . Actual ly Amtrak h a s 11 of these c a r s number 35001 through 35011 which were conver ted to this configuration about 10 y e a r s ago. T h e y were not retrofitted for strictly the Seat t le -Por tand s e r v i c e a s indi-ca ted in your art ic le. T h e y are a lso

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used in the Ch icago a r e a and h a v e been used in the past on the S a n Joaqu ins , the Capi to ls , and s o m e long haul t rains before the arr iva l of the arr iva l of the Horizon c a r s and the bi- level Cal i fo rn ia c a r s .

A s you know, the 31000 c o a c h -baggage ca re in s o m e c a s e s (34 c a r s a s of November , 1997) are being conver ted to coach -smoke rs . S i x t e e n plast ic, hard bottom s e a t s h a v e been instal led in the a r e a that w a s once used for c h e c k e d bag-gage. A new air circulat ion sys tem pul ls all the air out of the smok ing a r e a and doesn't recirculate it back through the a /c s y s t e m . T h e s e c a r s a re reported to be ve ry success fu l with no smel l of smoke getting into the upstai rs seat ing a r e a or the ad -joining restrooms. I h a v e sug-gested to Amtrak that the e l e v e n 35000 c l a s s c o a c h e s a lso h a v e this s a m e air c irculat ing sys tem appl ied to these c a r s in the event they are needed a s coach -smoke rs .

I a m glad to hear that the Denve r to Raton b u s e s are doing wel l . I w ish a Th ruway bus operated from L a Jun ta , to Pueb lo , Colorado Spr ings, and Denve r to connect with the eas tbound a n d the westbound Southwest Chie f at L a Jun ta .

I be l ieve this s e r v i c e would a lso do wel l .

John A. Mills T o p e k a , K S

Note from the editor:

ColoRail members are working on getting more bus-rail links, including Denver La Junta Kan-sas City St. Louis.

As shown in the cover photo for this issue, state-sponsored rail sen/ice covers the east end of that route. The missing link is in Colorado.

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^rr^ti. Lessons shared with ColoRaii Jon Esty

ColoRail members received an extensive tiistory as well as a realistic appraisal of Amtrak services from David A. Watts in the January General t^embership meeting held at North Presbyterian Church in Denver. Mr. Watts, now retired and a resident of Colorado Springs, was Vice-President and General Manager of Line Operations for the National Passenger Railroad Corporation (Amtrak) in the early to mid-seventies.

Prior to his appointment to Amtrak, Mr. Watts worked for the passenger depart-ment of the B&O Railroad. In more recent years, Mr. Watts worked on various rail related research projects at the A R R -U S D O T test facility in Pueblo.

Mr. Watts detailed Amtrak's quick and shaky start. From the time President Nixon signed the National Passenger Railroad Act, Amtrak management had just four short months to organize the system which was expected to take over passenger rail service on May 1, 1971. Routes had to be selected, agreements with operating rail-roads had to be made, labor agreements had to be worked out and on board staff had to be recruited and trained, locomotives

and cars from the participating railroads had to be assembled and evaluated, all lev-els of government had to be continually consulted, etc.

The management team was able to accom-plish the objective of getting a passenger railroad system underway but not without numerous problems and frustrations. Mr. Watts mentioned glaring problems as the result of such haste. He stated that many executives were recruited from the airline industry and tried to run Amtrak like an air-line. For example, considerable money was spent on advertising on travel to distant city pairs such as L A X - N Y C and LAX-MIA, long tnps few potential rail passengers would ever take. Shorter travel destinations and rapid corridor travel marketing was ignored.

Passenger ca rs , most of which had been built in the 1950's, were already worn and some cars that had been initially operated on southern railroads had numerous freeze-up problems when run on northern routes. Cars from the different railroads had vary-ing numbers of seats and that made devel-opment of a uniform ticket sa les policy diffi-cult.

Mr. Watts pointed out that Amtrak was forced to provide service to numerous loca-tions in the country because of political

considerations rather than because of rider-ship potential. Unprofitable routes were provided in W V , MT, and AR to satisfy Rep. Harley Staggers, Sen . Mike Mansfield, and Sen . Wm. Fulbright, respectively.

Looking to the future, Mr. Watts suggested rail advocates consider the following issues when promoting passenger rail services in Colorado or elsewhere. Freight railroads have reduced their capacity to such a degree that all their recent new business has created congestion problems. They are not going to welcome passenger trains. Costs of railroad infrastruc-ture per person transported as well as the cost of labor can be significant. Even though rail technology is progressing rapidly, care should be exercised in making equipment selections. Rehabilitating old Budd rail diesel cars (RDCs) may be much more cost effective and reliable than newer, untried technology.

Mr. Watts stressed that rail service had to be marketed well and that a target of 95% on time reliability be established. Equipment should be comfortable and easily accessible and the train should connect and coordinate schedules with other transportation modes. In Colorado, he suggested that one promising line be chosen keeping these issues in mind. Efforts should then be directed to making sure the selected sen/ice be as best as possible.

ColoRail Newsletter

P.O. Box 480452 Denver, CO 80248

Front Range Thruway Colorado - New Mexico - Arizona - California based on May 98 Official Bus Guide

and May 17, 1998 Amtrak National Timetable

Effective May 18, 1998

Bus Train 3 Stations Train 4 Bus

7:15a Dp Denver - Union Station Ar 10:55p 8:50a Dp Colorado Springs - Bus Station Ar 9:35p 9:35a Dp Pueblo - Bus Station Ar 8:45p

11:00a < alight only) Ar Trinidad - Amtrak Station Dp (board only> 7:15p 11:30a Ar Raton - Amtrak Station Dp -6 :45p

^11:52a Dp Raton - Amtrak Station Ar 6:08p ^ 1:37p Ar Las Vegas, NM Dp 4:19p 3:22p Ar Lamy, NM Dp 2:35p

{van service} Ar Santa Fe, NM Dp {van service} 4:52p Ar Albuquerque, NM Dp 1:^6p 7:39p Ar Gallup, NM Dp 10:05a 8: Up Ar Winslow, AZ Dp 7:26a 9:13p Ar Flagstaff, AZ Dp 6:28a

11:59p Ar Kingman, AZ Dp 3:42a 1:00a Ar Needles, CA (Laughlin, NV) Dp 2:35a 4:15a Ar Barstow, CA Dp 12:10a 4:51a Ar Victorville, CA Dp 11:18p 6:03a Ar San Bernardino, CA Dp 10:12p

alight only > 7:16a Ar Fullerton, CA Dp 9:1 Op 8:40a Ar Los Angeles, CA Dp 8:15p

Amtrak trains/Thruway buses Sample California Connections Amtrak trains/Ttiruway buses 10:05a Ar San Diego, CA Dp 5:20p 12:03p Ar Santa Barbara, CA Dp 1:54p

(via Coast > 7:20p Ar San Jose Dp 9:55a < via Valley) (via Coast > 8:40p Ar San Francisco - Ferry BIdg. Dp 9:35a < via Valley)

Bold face indicates Amtrak connec t ing s ta t ions for T h r u w a y or rail l ines.

All times shown are local (Arizona is on Mountain Standard Time year-round).

Times shown at San Diego are for connections via Fullerton. Times vary slightly on weekends vs. weekdays on the "San Diegan" trains for San Diego and Santa Barbara.

Prepared as a public service for general information only by Colorail, the association for Colorado rail passengers. For suggestions and questions, write to ColoRail, P. O. Box 480452, Terminal Annex, Denver, CO 80248.

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