Founded in 1899, the Colorado and Wyoming Railway is a subsidiary of the

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North America. It hauls coal, ore and steel products on about five miles of track inside ERVAZ - Pueblo, CO Steel Mills facility (formerly

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's Minnequa plant) in

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, and connects to the

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and the

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. The railway used to be a much larger railroad, serving the CF&I's mills, steel plants that were the only

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steel mills west of the Rockies until World War II.For a detailed history of the railway, see McKenzie, William H., "Mountains to Mills: The Colorado & Wyoming Railway" (1982, MAC Publishing) ().

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