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On plateaus overlooking the Uinta Basin's hills of sandstone and sagebrush, pumpjacks bob their heads as they lift viscous black and yellow oil from the earth that will eventually make everything from ...

There comes a phase in almost any large-scale, controversial project on public or private land when the questions arise and the lawsuits begin. The proposed Uinta Basin Railway is no different.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado politicians have apparently forgotten about the state’s historical second-class treatment of Native Americans and are repeating many of the same ...

The Uintah Railway was created out of desperation. Samuel Henry Gilson and his partner, Bert Seaboldt, had discovered the only commercially recoverable deposits of what became known as gilsonite in ...

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Grande Pacific Corporation (“RGPC” or the Company”) through its Rio Grande Pacific Group portfolio company Basin Railway Constructors, LLC (“BRC”) announced ...

A tunnel through the mountain rather than over Douglas Pass was also discussed, but it never materialized. By September 1919, citizens of the Uintah Basin had approved $60,000 worth of bonds to ...