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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rresor: [QB] There was a discussion of the re-route on Trainorders that turned into a discussion of the "Pioneer" routing. Basically, Amtrak ran into the downtown Cheyenne station (hauling the train backward from or to Denver) until 1979, when the Borie station was opened. Then in 1983 DRGW and Amtrak agreed to re-route the train via Grand Junction. This was delayed until (IIRC) sometime in 1984 by the Thistle slide. That left the UP through Wyoming without service. The Pioneer and Desert Wind equipment were both switched out of #5/6 in SLC. In late 1991, Amtrak bowed to political pressure and re-routed the Pioneer through Wyoming. The train ran from Denver to Ogden via Borie, then north. The Green River cutoff was not used. This lasted until the 1997 Warrington train-offs. In 1996, IIRC, a total of 3,900 people boarded or alighted at six Wyoming stations. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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