Photo ID: 111663 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 78 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111662 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 74 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111661 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111659 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111658 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111657 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 63 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111656 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 72 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111655 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 70 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A Winter Park Express car attendant (volunteer) assists a passenger down the metal ramp to the platform at Winter Park. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110450 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS057 (East Winter Park) Winter Park, CO 151 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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". Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110449 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Moffat Tunnel (West Portal) Winter Park, CO 332 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109932 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park (7,110 ft) Winter Park, CO 229 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108838 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Winter Park, CO 625 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108743 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 2, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS058 (West Winter Park) Winter Park, CO 638 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108742 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 2, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Winter Park, CO 728 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Rocky Mountaineer At close to 9,000 feet above sea level, a "dry run" of the Rocky Mountaineer's Rockies to the Red Rocks passenger train proceeds west on the main at Winter Park. In the distance are James Peak (left, 13,301-feet above sea level) and Parry Peak (right, 13,397-feet above seal level), making up part of the Continental Divide. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108735 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 2, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Moffat Tunnel Winter Park, CO 699 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On the west slope of the Continental Divide, the westbound California Zephyr emerges from the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel on its journey west, passing by the Winter Park Ski Resort. Of course, since it is the middle of summer, Winter Park transforms into a summer playground, particularly for mountain bikers. Paths used by skiers in the winter are used as off-road courses by bikers in the summer. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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