The vestibule on Car 13 (the Colorado Springs) is open and ready to receive passenger! The Ski Train is sitting on the main at Winter Park, waiting for its summer departure time at 3:00pm. Note the unique disk brakes used on all the Ski Train cars (save the bike car and the private cars).
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Ski Train volunteers work their legs (not their backs!) to unload the 37 bikes brought along by passengers. While a ramp is available in the car, the ballast makes using the ramp a bit unpredictable, so bikes are typically lifted.
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The Ski Train has come to a stop at the east end of Winter Park. The train is just past the OS section which gives just enough room for the Kansas (on the tail end) to site near the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel. Note the passengers de-training in the distance.
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After assisting a unit pipe train a couple dozen miles east at Clay, the MNYRO-16 now makes its way west through Winter Park. The train still had plenty of power to make it up the hill on the east side without any problems. Now, it is all down hill for quite some time to come!
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The 2005-2006 winter skiing season will be coming to a close in the next few weeks. Passenger on the California Zephyr can observe some skiers getting in the last of the spring skiing.
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Running less than ten minutes late, Amtrak 5 comes out of the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel right around 10am.
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The day before the last run of the season, the Ski Train is stopped on the main at Winter Park to let its passengers detrain.
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Passenger walk along car 4 toward the front of the train, looking for their respective cars. The train stops here at the base of Winter Park for up to 30 minutes (until 4:15pm) to load passengers.
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Weather in Colorado is never predictable. Case in point: the high temperature in Denver on this Spring day was 55 degrees. In Winter Park, the snow was horizontal and you couldn't see more than 200 yards away! Passenger hurry to get off the train and head for the slopes.
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Having dropped off all of its passengers at Winter Park, the Ski Train is now continue west toward Fraser and Tabernash to be wyed and wait for the trip back east.
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Looking out the last car of the Ski Train, Winter Park is rapidly fading in the increasing exhaust as the Ski Train enters the Moffat Tunnel.
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The side of car 7, the Pyramid Peak, slowly pulls away from the base of the Winter Park resort on a beautiful Colorado morning.
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The Ski Train has brining passenger here to Winter Park since 1940! After dropping off its skiers, the train is just getting ready to pull away from Winter Park, headed toward Fraser.
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