Re: Rio Grande PACIFIC to Lease Tennessee Pass
Author: White River Junction
Date: 01-02-2021 - 09:39
ron Wrote:
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> tc Wrote:
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> > I wonder what the nimbies in Minturn are going
> to
> > say about this?
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> Interesting comment. The last time I was in
> Minturn was around 1996 to watch and film the
> last
> trains over the pass. Minturn was a sleepy town
> that mostly housed the hospitality workers (cooks
> ,housecleaners, maids) that worked the resorts in
> Aspen. Nimbies? Something smells fishy about
> reopening this steep mountain pass with no bridge
> traffic and UP dictating the interchange rates.
Did you mean Vail instead of Aspen?