The state owns the tunnel and leases the tracks that run through it to Union Pacific, which other train operators can then pay to use. The 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel is the only rail tunnel in the ...

It will replace the previous 99-year lease on the tunnel. Additionally, the Polis administration and Union Pacific signed a four-month Moffat Tunnel lease extension before the long-term lease ...

Colorado officials reached an agreement announced this week allowing Union Pacific Railroad to lease the Moffat Tunnel for another 25 years. Union Pacific has paid Colorado $12,000 a year under a ...

KALISPEL, Mont., July 7. -- The largest railroad tunnel in the world is nearly completed, through the the Cascade Mountains west of here. It is the pet scheme of J.J. Hill, President of the Great ...