About ColoRail

The Colorado Rail Passenger Association (ColoRail) is a statewide, voluntary organization which works to develop passenger rail services in and through the state of Colorado. ColoRail also supports efforts to provide multi-modal solutions to Colorado's growing transportation problems. We believe that passenger rail in some of the state's busiest corridors can provide a mobility choice for travelers who either cannot or do not wish to drive. Anyone who is interested in congestion relief and mobility choice should support rail service as a means of achieving these goals.

Passenger rail has historically provided the traveling public with a safe, comfortable, environmental friendly, and reliable form of transportation. Travel on a train is six times safer than in an automobile. Trains can provide a comfortable and relaxed setting where riders may work, converse, or rest during their trip. A double track rail line can transport more people than eight lanes of highway yet take up much less space. Energy and resultant pollution created by trains is considerably less per passenger carried than what can be achieved by the automobile. Trains operate reliably in all kinds of weather.

ColoRail hopes to stimulate more interest toward more investment in passenger rail services along some of the state's busiest corridors as well as longer distance services to other states and regions. Coupled with this investment, ColoRail would like to see a coordinated array of multi-modal services which would provide a time competitive and efficient alternative to automobile travel.

ColoRail was founded and incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1989 following a successful fight by a coalition of historic preservationists, environmentalists, downtown business and property owners, political leaders, and transit activists to keep the trains and tracks at Denver Union Terminal DUT). A plan had been put forth by the Peña Administration to build a smaller station elsewhere in the Platte Valley. Since that time ColoRail has promoted improvements to DUT as an intermodal facility and supported improved Amtrak service including connecting Front Range Thruway Bus service. ColoRail also actively promotes investment in local and regional rail service and supports state and local candidates who support passenger rail/transit.