The Regional Transportation District is proposing to donate a portion of a freight rail line it acquired for FasTracks to the Boulder County Railway Historical Society for an excursion-train operation, the Denver Post reports.

RTD bought the 33-mile Boulder Industrial Lead freight line from the Union Pacific Railroad for the FasTracks North Metro Corridor commuter train that is to run between Union Station through and Commerce City/Thornton.

The right of goes beyond the project limits past and turns west, crossing Interstate 25 and into Boulder County. RTD is proposing to license the portion that runs west of I-25 to US 287 to the Boulder railway historical society for 10 years at no cost.

“The proposed operation would consist of a dinner train two nights per week year-round and seasonal heritage trains running five days per week for the summer months of June through September,” RTD said in a lease proposal that RTD directors will vote on next week.

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