They couldn’t be moved until the city of Thornton removed asphalt that had been paved over the tracks near Weld 6, however. But residents revolted, and UP agreed to move the cars to an area north of Colo.
parked a three-mile-long train of cars in Thornton south of 168th Avenue to just north of 136th Avenue. An average boxcar is about 65 feet long end-to-end, they would stretch from New York to Salt Lake City. The number represents 30 percent of the nation’s boxcars. The city is luckier than other train towns, which are playing host to the more than 206,000 boxcars parked by the nation’s five largest railroads. That means an increase in parked rail cars throughout the United States, including Colorado.īut as any Fort Collins resident knows, the trains themselves aren’t going anywhere.įort Collins is a busy enough train town that most cars parked in the city are eventually picked up, according to city and railroad officials. Rail freight is down in every category from lumber to TV sets - the only exception is coal. Railroad volume was down 15 percent through the first seven weeks of the year, according to the Association of American Railroads. But like most segments of the economy, the good times are no longer rolling. Got it?)Įighteen months ago, it was as good a time as ever to be in the railroad business. Ferrous = made of iron, equine = horse ferrous equine = iron horse.
(They’re train enthusiasts, for those of us who don’t speak Latin. Ferroequinologists may have noticed an increase in empty rail cars parked throughout the Front Range lately. (The following story by Rebecca Boyle appeared on the Fort Collins Now website on March 5, 2009.)įORT COLLINS, Colo.
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