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Colorado Joint Line
The Colorado Joint Line is a railway corridor in Colorado running north-south between Denver and Pueblo, Colorado, Pueblo. Presently the tracks are owned by the BNSF Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad and operated jointly. History The first set of tracks in the area were laid by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1871. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway laid their tracks parallel to the D&RG in 1888. In 1900 the Colorado and Southern negotiated a trackage rights agreement to run its trains over the AT&SF line. In 1918 during the First World War the United States Railroad Administration dictated that the parallel D&RG and AT&SF lines be operated as a single double-track railroad, with the eastern track carrying all northbound trains, and the western track carrying all southbound traffic. That efficient arrangement continued after the end of the War and right up to the present day. Operation The line consists of the paired right of ways of the two companies, with o ...
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