Traffic & Transit
'Ghost Train' T-Shirts Celebrate G-Line To Nowhere
Local Arvada t-shirt printers have created a design tribute to the commuter rail that is "Taking No-one Nowhere Fast."
ARVADA, CO – Here's Arvada's most wry local holiday gift: A t-shirt, hoodie or tote bag celebrating the absence of the long-promised G-Line that was supposed to run from Union Station to Arvada and Wheat Ridge three years ago. Except, instead of the Gold Line, it's now nicknamed the "Ghost Line."
As first reported on 9NEWS, the Arvada owners of Torso Rags have created a design on t-shirts, totes and hoodies honoring the Ghost Train and its three-year delay. Empty trains pass the Torso Rags t-shirt shop every day, their horns blaring, but no-one is aboard because the federal government has still not approved passenger travel on the line.
"Taking No-one Nowhere Fast" is the slogan on the back of the apparel.
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The shop, near the tracks at 7100 Grandview Ave., is close enough to hear the ghostly whistle blow everything the empty trains go by.
"It’ll be forgotten, but right now people are kinda mad," Co-owner Dennis Line said. "Each t-shirt comes with a pair of earplugs," Line added.
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Image via Torso Rags
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