Hundreds of passengers’ plans were derailed on Wednesday when a train crashed into a tanker truck on Colorado’s Western Slope, damaging the tracks — but not just those on board were affected.
The train involved in the crash was the Canyon Spirit, a luxury passenger train operated by Canada-based Armstrong Collective. But Amtrak and various freight companies also use the Union Pacific-owned rails and, with the route closed to repair damage from the crash, those trains were unable to pass through on Wednesday and Thursday.
“We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience,” a service alert for the California Zephyr route on Amtrak’s train status page stated. The route spans dozens of stations between Chicago and Emeryville, California…