(Source: Pueblo Chieftain, March 15, 2012)
PUEBLO, Colo. — Since 1821, a route across Kansas, Colorado’s Eastern Plains and over Raton Pass into northern New Mexico has carried countless travelers to the American Southwest, from ox carts to stagecoaches to the streamlined Super Chief and El Capitan.
But today, people along the route that follows much of the historic Santa Fe Trail are worried they could lose passenger-train service that links them to the Midwest and points east and to Southern California as well as expose their communities to tourists from around the world.
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