One of the two conductor's on the Winter Park Express, conductor Chris, is helping passengers by taking their equipment to load it onto the train. Both conductor Chris and conductor Antonio are absolutely amazing! They are friendly, kind, and always willing to help passengers in any way they can.
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With just over 20 minutes to go prior to departure, additional passengers walk down the platform of Track 5, carrying their equipment to the open baggage door on the coach/baggage car. The coach/baggage Superliner is the perfect car for hauling the ski equipment.
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One of the car hosts for the Winter Park Express Ski Train chats with Amtrak conductor Chris on the platform of Track 5 during a brief down moment, while waiting for more passengers to arrive.
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Passengers carry their ski or snow boarding boots as they walk down the platform along Track 5. The rest of their equipment has already been loaded into the baggage hold on the coach/baggage car.
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One of the numerous ski racks sit on the platform on Track 5 alongside the Winter Park Express. The train currently has two coach/baggage cars. The passengers skies and snowboards are loaded into the baggage compartments on these two cars. You can see the baggage hold open in the background.
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Looking at AMTK 146, currently the second unit on the Winter Park Express, note the "Ski Train" sticker with the classic Rio Grande herald on the side of the nose. A small, but wonderful, nod to the Ski Train(s) of yesteryear.
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A Rio Grande Ski Train sticker has been applied to the sides of the nose of both AMTK 75 and AMTK 146, the current power on the Winter Park Express Ski Train. A nice homage to the Rio Grande and Anschutz Ski Trains.
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Passengers are boarding on the Winter Park Express Ski Train on Track 5 at Denver Union Station. AMTK 75 will be the leader on the train this morning when it departs at 7am. Right now, at 6:25am, it is still nearly an hour from sunrise.
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Passengers ready to board the Winter Park Express Ski Train walk down the platform at Denver Union Station alongside Track 5. A car host greets the approaching passengers.
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The front half of a coal load backs through the OS at Pecos Crossover on Bypass 2. It is approaching the back half of its train, ready to connect up after cutting out mid-train DPUs.
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As a pair of light units make their way toward Utah Jct to head into the yard, the front half of a coal load prepares to make a reverse move to connect with the back half of the train on the other side of Pecos Crossover. And, while that is happening, a northbound BNSF manifest is headed for the BNSF Front Range Sub as well!
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After uncoupling from an eastbound coal load, these two mid-train DPUs have crossed over from Bypass 2 to Main 3 in order to make their way into the yard for servicing. You can see the front half of the train in the distance, clear of the OS, on Bypass 2.
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Conductor from the inbound crew has just uncoupled UP 6448 from the back half of this coal load. The inbound crew will take the two DPUs into North Yard to the fuel tracks for servicing. The outbound crew will be responsible for putting the coal train back together before departing east.
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This UP coal load has come to a stop on Bypass 2 and the inbound crew is working to uncouple the front half of the coal load from the two mid-train DPUs. The outbound crew on the head end will pull the front of the train forward, clear of the Pecos Crossover.
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Not sure if it is just due the time of year, coming up on Christmas and New Year's, but North Yard is relatively empty at the moment! Most tracks are not anywhere near full, and several tracks are completely empty.
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