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Economy of Trinidad, CO

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For many years Trinidad housed the miners who worked in the coal mines of the Raton Basin south and west of the town. The coal mines are now closed, but since the 1980s companies have been drilling new gas wells to extract coal bed methane from the remaining coal seams.

Trinidad's location at the foot of Raton Pass, along the Santa Fe Trail between St. Joseph, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico, has always made it a favoured route for travellers, first by foot, then horse and ox-drawn wagon, then by railroad. Today Interstate 25, the most highly travelled route between

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