Looking out the vestibule window on the end of the coach car on the Winter Park Express Ski Train, we look directly into the face of AMTK 75, sporting the Phase 7 paint scheme. This P42DC was the leader on the train this morning, but is now the trailing unit for the journey back to Denver. Right now, the train is in between Fraser and Winter Park.
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From the last car of the Winter Park Express Ski Train, we look along the platform as all passengers headed for the resort are off, and we prepare to continue west.
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The five car Winter Park Express Ski Train is stopped alongside the heated platform at the Winter Park resort. The train is facing a green signal, ready to depart for Fraser as soon as all passengers heading for the resort are off the train.
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An employee for Winter Park has completed his duties on the platform this morning, and is walking toward the east end of the platform to head back to the resort. Note the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel in the scene as well.
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A Winter Park employee watches over passengers on the platform at the Winter Park Ski Resort, ready to answer any questions or offer help to any passenger that might need it as everyone scrambles to find their equipment.
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Passengers look for their equipment, resting on one of several ski racks, on the platform at Winter Park. Shortly, the Winter Park Express will depart for Fraser, added as a passenger stop this year.
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A Winter Park Express car host (volunteer) works to unload skies and snow boards from the baggage hold of this coach/baggage car. Racks are available on the platform to hold the equipment until passengers find theirs.
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A Winter Park Express car host (volunteer) works to unload skies and snow boards from the baggage hold of this coach/baggage car. Racks are available on the platform to hold the equipment until passengers find theirs.
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Passengers are "booted up" as they step off the Winter Park Express and onto the heated concrete platform at Winter Park. After finding their equipment, it is a short walk to the ski lifts.
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A Winter Park Express car attendant (volunteer) assists a passenger down the metal ramp to the platform at Winter Park.
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When UP runs a passenger special, they always make sure the power is pristine and matches wonderfully with the equipment. Here, a pair of SD70Ms leads 11 cars by the Winter Park ski resort. The resort is still open, and plans to remain open "as long there is enough snow".
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A UP officer's special, said to be carrying an executive vice president for the company, emerges from the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel, passing by the platform the Winter Park Express Ski Train uses.
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Under mostly overcast skies, the westbound Zephyr glides down the 1.50% grade near the west end of Winter Park. It is an unusually warm day, but there is still plenty of snow to be had here at roughly 9,000 feet above sea level. James Peak and the Continental Divide are in-and-out of the clouds.
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Barely five miles east of Fraser and the scenery has changed from wet to snow! The eastbound Zephyr is about to plunge in to the 6.2-mile-long Moffat Tunnel. While the snow at Winter Park is not deep enough to accommodate skiers just yet, more snow is definitely in the forecast and it shouldn't be long before a new ski season kicks off.
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11 cars from the Canadian Tourist Company Rocky Mountaineer make up a "dry run" of the upcoming Rockies to the Red Rocks tourist train the company will operate in Colorado and Utah. The train that will run should consist of 14 cars. Unfortunately, Rocky Mountaineer power did not come to the US with the trainset, and rumor has it the train will run with leased UP power throughout its run in 2021.
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