Trains are seemingly omnipresent in Fort Collins, but I figure you're asking for one of two reasons.
Either A) You are looking to join the circus and are planning to jump a train.
Or B) You're at your wits end with the train traffic, are thinking about ramming on with your car.
But listen, you aren't Robert Pattinson and everyone gets frustrated with the trains. Even Captain Kirk.
And remember: In car versus train, train always wins.
Always.
But since we're here, let me dive into the answer anyway. The trains passing through Fort Collins haul a wide variety of goods, from Canadian lumber to molten sulfur to crude oil and coal destined for the East Coast. Because train companies are private companies, they rarely disclose publicly exactly what they’re hauling at any given time.
But as far as I'm aware, there's no Super 8-style alien transports happening.
The vast majority of the cargo passing through Fort Collins is destined for other places, but some cars do stop here. Among those are the cars carrying grain to the Budweiser plant off Interstate 25 (the plant’s construction here 1989 meant the railroads killed a plan to bypass the city most of the time) and the cars hauling new Vestas wind turbine blades to customers all over the country.
The BNSF track on Mason Street is part of the Front Range Subdivision that operates from Denver to Cheyenne, linking customers here to BNSF's 32,000-mile network in 28 states and two Canadian provinces, and to ports for export. BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said the "vast majority" of the railway's north/south traffic from Denver to states north runs out on the Eastern Plains, not through Fort Collins.
For more on where those trains might go, check http://www.bnsf.com/customers/where-can-i-ship/.
Fun fact: a modern diesel train can move one ton of freight nearly 500 miles on a single gallon of diesel fuel, and the average train can carry the equivalent freight of 280 or more trucks.
The vast majority of the cargo passing through Fort Collins is destined for other places, but some cars do stop here. Among those are the cars carrying grain to the Budweiser plant off Interstate 25 (the plant’s construction here 1989 meant the railroads killed a plan to bypass the city most of the time) and the cars hauling new Vestas wind turbine blades to customers all over the country.
The BNSF track on Mason Street is part of the Front Range Subdivision that operates from Denver to Cheyenne, linking customers here to BNSF's 32,000-mile network in 28 states and two Canadian provinces, and to ports for export. BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said the "vast majority" of the railway's north/south traffic from Denver to states north runs out on the Eastern Plains, not through Fort Collins.
For more on where those trains might go, check http://www.bnsf.com/customers/where-can-i-ship/.
Fun fact: a modern diesel train can move one ton of freight nearly 500 miles on a single gallon of diesel fuel, and the average train can carry the equivalent freight of 280 or more trucks.
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