Colorado's Bad Bargain With AMTRAK

[MountainMan]

Well, it's official...for a eye popping price of hundreds of millions of dollars in right-of-way upgrades at our expense, AMTRAK has agreed to keep traveling through the State of Colorado without stopping at a single major city on its way from Southern Californian to Chicago. Yes, you read this correctly. AMTRAK will make its one and only stop as before, in the small community of La Junta in the far south, and then pass right through Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver without stopping on its was to Chicago.

How many people might board at or get off at La Junta? Barely a handful, if AMTRAK is lucky.