Efforts to ensure that Amtrak’s Southwest Chief line keeps rolling through the region are chugging along.

Pueblo County announced Monday it was pledging $12,500 toward the latest Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery — or TIGER — grant application for train track fixes.

It joins more than 20 other communities in three states — Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico — that have already passed similar resolutions or submitted letters of support for the line.

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The Southwest Chief rolls west toward Trinidad and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Courtesy of Amtrak