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Front Range Passenger Rail is a proposed
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service along the
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and broader
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corridors in
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and
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. Most proposals envision a route from
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north to
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,
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, and
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. Extensions north to
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and south to
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,
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, and even
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have been discussed. Front Range communities were historically connected by rail transit until the mid-20th century. A series of studies performed since the early 2000s have shown mounting interest in renewed service. In the 2020s, Colorado created a taxing district to fund a new passenger-rail effort, while
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included the route in its 15-year expansion vision. As of 2023, the
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is working on a service development plan for the core route between Pueblo and Fort Collins. The plan will enable the state to solicit funding from voters and from the federal government.


History

In the 19th century, the
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and
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built lines along the Front Range that are now owned by
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and
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. Pueblo–Denver passenger service existed until the formation of
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in 1971. The Denver–Cheyenne segment was last served in 1997 by the ''Pioneer''. In 1989, rail supporters involved in preserving
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formed the nonprofit Colorado Rail Passenger Association (ColoRail). The group has regularly advocated for the Front Range route, and in 1997 played a role in starting
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bus service along the corridor from Denver to Raton. With the 1998
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, Congress authorized the
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to designate eleven federal high-speed rail corridors for targeted development. Ten were listed by the December 2001 funding deadline, though none in the mountain west. In March 2002, the
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(CDOT) nevertheless applied for designation of the "Rocky Mountain High Speed Rail Corridor" along I-25 and
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. The corridor has yet to be designated .


Rocky Mountain Rail Authority

In December 2004, Colorado State Representative Bob Briggs of
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founded the Front Range Commuter Rail organization. The stated goal of the organization was to start
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along the Front Range by the time the
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's
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mass transit started service in 2014. The proposed line was dubbed the "RangerXpress" and received high-profile support from Colorado
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. In September 2006, the Colorado Transportation Commission approved a $1,246,000 grant for a
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on corridors in Colorado, including the Front Range. Although Front Range Commuter Rail had applied for the grant, CDOT required that the money go to a local government body. To this end, several counties and municipalities in Colorado formed the Rocky Mountain Rail Authority (RMRA) that November. The authority eventually grew to 45 members. By May 2007, the RMRA had raised over $415,000 in matching funds, exceeding the required 20% match on the CDOT grant. RMRA committed the final $325,000 the following month. Work on the RMRA study began in June 2008 and it was released in March 2010. It found that the I-25 corridor would meet the
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(FRA) criteria for technical and economic feasibility, including positive cost-benefit and
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ratios. In July 2011, the Colorado Secretary of State marked Front Range Commuter Rail as a delinquent organization effective June 1, 2010.


Division of Transit and Rail

In May 2009,
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signed a bill creating the Division of Transit and Rail (DTR) within CDOT. The division is responsible for developing rail services and administering state and federal rail funds in Colorado. In March 2012, DTR released its first Colorado Freight and Passenger Rail Plan, which was required by the
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in order for Colorado to receive future FRA grants. The plan lists various versions of Front Range service as long-range projects. In April 2012, CDOT began an Interregional Connectivity Study (ICS) through an FRA grant, building on the 2010 RMRA study. Published in January 2014, the ICS recommended initial high-speed rail service between Fort Collins,
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, and Briargate—a neighborhood of northern Colorado Springs—with future expansion to Pueblo. This alignment would bypass Boulder and downtown Denver via a new rail line built along the Colorado 470 beltway. The startup cost of the project was estimated at $9.81 billion with annual ridership of 13.6 million. In July 2015, CDOT began operating
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, an
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service with several routes along the Front Range corridor. In July 2016, the
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(RTD) opened the initial section of the B Line from Denver to
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. An unfunded extension to Boulder and
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is planned for the 2040s. This commuter rail line overlaps part of the route that later emerged as the favorite for Front Range Passenger Rail.


Rail Commission

In spring 2017, Colorado enacted legislation creating the Southwest Chief & Front Range Passenger Rail Commission, effective July 1 of that year. The commission subsumed a body focused solely on supporting the long-distance ''
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'', taking on the additional task of developing passenger rail on the I-25 corridor. It is composed of representatives from CDOT, RTD, ColoRail, Amtrak, BNSF, Union Pacific, and various Colorado governments. In 2018 the General Assembly allocated $2.5 million toward the commission's duties, including development of a Front Range Passenger Rail service plan. CDOT updated the Colorado Freight and Passenger Rail Plan in 2018, naming Front Range Passenger Rail a "priority objective" and "Colorado's most immediate opportunity to improve and expand rail mobility." The Division of Transit and Rail committed to advancing the project. In December 2020, the Rail Commission published an "Alternatives Analysis" that identified three feasible routes for the Pueblo–Fort Collins segment of Front Range service. The alternatives consisted of nine initial stations, 18 to 24 round trips per day, speeds up to , and end-to-end travel times of 2.5 to 3 hours. Annual ridership was estimated at 2.2 million and startup costs at $7.8 to $14.5 billion. In spring 2021, Amtrak included the Front Range route in its 2035 expansion vision. As envisioned, the service would consist of three daily round trips between Pueblo and Fort Collins with one extending to Cheyenne. The end-to-end trip time would be 5 hours 34 minutes and the route would have an annual economic impact of $103 million. This would be a state-supported Amtrak route similar to ''
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'' or
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, meaning Colorado and Wyoming would shoulder much of the operating cost.


Rail District

In June 2021, Colorado Governor
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signed a bill creating the Front Range Passenger Rail District in a ceremony at Pueblo Union Depot. The district spans nine counties of the I-25 corridor in Colorado. It is overseen by a board of stakeholders similar to those of the Southwest Chief & Front Range Passenger Rail Commission, which the district officially replaced on July 1, 2022. The board can ask voters to approve a new sales tax up to 0.8% within the district to pay for the train service, but only after making every effort to secure federal funding. In October 2021, the Colorado Transportation Commission approved the final $1.6 million of the $3.9 million needed for new Front Range service studies. The FRA had already awarded a $685,000 grant and the rest came from the Rail Commission. The studies were to take about two years and result in a workable service plan that the Rail District can use to secure funding. The project would still need separate environmental review. In November 2021,
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passed President Biden's
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(IIJA), which allocates $215 million to public transportation in Colorado, $66 billion to Amtrak, and tens of billions to competitive transportation grant programs. Advocates considered Front Range Passenger Rail well-positioned to benefit from these funds. In May 2022, the FRA launched the
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as the mechanism for new passenger rail projects to receive funds from the IIJA. Colorado's four Democratic
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members sent a letter to
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and the FRA requesting that Front Range service be funded by the program. In December 2023, the Fort Collins–Pueblo route was accepted into the Corridor ID program and was granted $500,000 toward development. In June 2022, Colorado allocated nearly $9 million in "early stage Front Range Passenger Rail funding": $2.4 million to the rail district, providing matching dollars for federal contributions; and $6.5 million to the Burnham
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redevelopment project in Denver. The move was intended to help make Colorado competitive for federal IIJA funding. In September 2023, Polis was pushing to put a funding measure for Front Range service on the ballot as soon as November 2024. Planners were working on a service development plan which will finalize the proposed route, station stops, and frequency, while estimating timeline and cost. In March 2024, Colorado lawmakers proposed to increase rental car fees in the state to provide matching dollars for federal rail funding without increasing taxes. In October 2024, the FRA granted Colorado $66 million as part of a Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) grant to CDOT to upgrade the BNSF trackage between Westminster, CO and Broomfield, CO by adding
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(PTC), improving the track, and adding a siding. The money also will improve five "high priority" crossings in Larimer and Boulder counties. The state of Colorado provided $27 million to match the grant. While this is a general rail safety upgrade, this is widely expected to help lay the groundwork for Front Range Passenger Rail with Governor Polis saying the grant will "accelerate the timeline". In April 2025, U.S. Representative
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asked the
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(DOGE) to reevaluate federal funding from the rail project, purporting it to be a waste of tax money that infringed on landowners' rights and operated with a lack of transparency. Polis' office released a statement debunking Boebert's claims, saying that the federal government has provided less than $2 million to the project and adding that his office did not expect any federal funds to be used.


New Mexico and Texas

In 2003,
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announced plans for the Rail Runner Express, a commuter train between Belen,
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, and Santa Fe. To ensure passenger trains would have priority over freight, the state signed a $76 million agreement with BNSF in December 2005 to buy the line between Belen and
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. As part of the deal, BNSF insisted that the state also buy the line from Lamy to Trinidad, Colorado, that hosts the ''
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'' and has been included in some plans for Front Range Passenger Rail expansion. Governor
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cancelled the purchase of this part of the line in March 2016. The
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appropriated new funding for high-speed rail projects, renewing interest a possible "Rocky Mountain High Speed Rail Corridor". Colorado,
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, and
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sought designation for the Denver–Albuquerque–El Paso section of the I-25 corridor. In July 2009, in hopes of conducting a feasibility study, the states applied for $5 million in funds made available by the
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. No study materialized. In February 2024, a
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route between El Paso and
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via Denver was proposed by the Federal Railroad Administration as part of the Long-Distance Service Study.


See also

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– the rail corridor between Pueblo and Denver


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