ALAMOSA, Colo. — An outdoors group has filed an objection to plans by OmniTRAX to buy the bankrupt San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad, saying it will permanently damage the group’s effort to expand recreational trails in Colorado’s San Luis Valley along the railroad’s right-of-way.
The Mineral County Miner reports San Luis Valley Great Outdoors has requested a hearing over the sale, with the organization claiming it had agreements with two other bidders pursuing the railroad but that trustee William A. Brandt Jr. was favoring the OmniTRAX bid.
“OmniTRAX is against allowing trail systems within and near its railroad easements,” the group writes in its filing. It says its long-term plan for trail expansion requires “easements within and near the 150 miles of track which are among the assets of SLRG.”
OmniTRAX announced in October that it had completed an agreement to buy the San Luis & Rio Grande, a 155-mile former Denver & Rio Grande Western line connecting Alamosa and Antonio to the Union Pacific at Walsenburg, Colo. [see “OmniTRAX finalizes deal …,” Trains News Wire, Oct. 12, 2022]
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