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After more than a century as one of the area’s premier tourist attractions, the Pikes Peak Cog Railway’s future is in doubt.
The railway, which has shuttled generations of visitors on breathtaking, 8.9-mile trips to the summit of Pikes Peak and back, won’t reopen this spring after several months of maintenance, and it could remain closed for up to three years while its owner, The Broadmoor hotel, studies its fate, hotel President and CEO Jack Damioli said Tuesday.
After that process, it might be rebuilt or might never reopen, he said.
“We want to run a five-star, five-diamond operation, including the railroad,” Damioli said of the hotel and amenities. “We need to take a look at the next step.”
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