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Southwest Chief gets reprieve in Colorado, Kansas

Amtrak locomotive 158 leading the Southwest Chief through Albuquerque in 2004.

(Santa Fe New Mexican) Amtrak pledged to continue services along the endangered Southwest Chief passenger rail route through parts of Colorado and Kansas for two more decades Tuesday, when those states received federal transportation grants for the project. But the line’s future in New Mexico remains uncertain. Continued