Colorado’s old train stations reborn as focal points for future

Colorado’s old train stations reborn as focal points for future

PUEBLO — When lawyer Jim Koncilja saw China and Europe developing 200-mile-per-hour bullet trains, he wanted to revive the passenger rail service that once carried Coloradans around their state. He and his brother paid $3.5 million for a defunct 1889 train station, the Pueblo Union Depot, where vandals had broken in and set fires on the mosaic tile floor. They launched a $4 million project two decades ago to restore the station down to the detai…