Attention Rail Road Workers of Colorado (Denver, Pueblo: find a job, construction, centers)

[snowdreams]

My family is looking to move out of North Pole Alaska and relocate to Colorado. My husband works for the Alaska Rail Road and we are wanting information about the rail lines down in the Denver area. The only hopes of moving our family out of -40 below winters is to find him another rail road job. Any information or inside knowledge about applying and what rail roads are the best to work for would be awesome.

Thanks

[Mystery123]

No inside knowledge but recent flood has damaged quite a few rail lines so there will be need of more people hopefully.

[snowdreams]

LOL....that is true. I feel so bad for everyone.

[otterprods]

Originally Posted by snowdreams

My family is looking to move out of North Pole Alaska and relocate to Colorado. My husband works for the Alaska Rail Road and we are wanting information about the rail lines down in the Denver area. The only hopes of moving our family out of -40 below winters is to find him another rail road job. Any information or inside knowledge about applying and what rail roads are the best to work for would be awesome.

Thanks

I can't speak for what's best, but the major freight line along the front range is BNSF. Amtrak and some other lines have facilities in Denver. Pueblo is historically a railroad town, and there's still vestiges of that today, but I don't think it's much of a hub anymore.

[snowdreams]

Ok thanks for the info, we apprecaite it.

[wong21fr]

Originally Posted by otterprods

I can't speak for what's best, but the major freight line along the front range is BNSF. Amtrak and some other lines have facilities in Denver. Pueblo is historically a railroad town, and there's still vestiges of that today, but I don't think it's much of a hub anymore.

BNSF and Union Pacific both have large yards in Denver with the corresponding jobs. There are also about a dozen short-line railroads in Colorado as well that serve local agricultural and industry centers.

The majority of railroad traffic in Colorado are long-haul coal trains from Wyoming and NW Colorado that are bound for power plants in Texas.

[otterprods]

Originally Posted by wong21fr

BNSF and Union Pacific both have large yards in Denver with the corresponding jobs. There are also about a dozen short-line railroads in Colorado as well that serve local agricultural and industry centers. The majority of railroad traffic in Colorado are long-haul coal trains from Wyoming and NW Colorado that are bound for power plants in Texas.

Wong seems to know what he/she is talking about, so who am I to argue? I was just going by what I see outside of my window 95% of the time, which is BNSF coal and/or freight trains headed north toward Denver or south toward COS (and beyond, no doubt). But I do see Union Pacific trains occasionally, especially up around Denver. And sometimes I see BNSF, UP and other locomotives working together on the same train. I'm not sure how all that works, but I know BNSF has a huge presence in Colorado, especially North and South along the front range.

[KaaBoom]

Originally Posted by snowdreams

My family is looking to move out of North Pole Alaska and relocate to Colorado. My husband works for the Alaska Rail Road and we are wanting information about the rail lines down in the Denver area. The only hopes of moving our family out of -40 below winters is to find him another rail road job. Any information or inside knowledge about applying and what rail roads are the best to work for would be awesome.

Thanks

There are rail roads in every state except Hawaii. Just take your pick, anywhere. Big cities, small towns, rail roads are as common as highways. If you want, your husband could probably find a job in some place with a lot warmer climate then Denver.

[DarkWolf]

Hawaii has a small line and another line under construction....

[davidv]

The largest rail hub in the area is probably Cheyenne, WY (10 miles north of the Colorado border). It sits on the major east-west line from California to the East Coast (Union Pacific) and the north-south line from Montana to New Mexico (BNSF) and much more freight moves through there than through Colorado.