The eastbound Ski Train is running right on time as it emerges from Tunnel 20. In the distance, the snowcapped mountains of the Continental Divide are clearly visible!
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This coal empty is right in the heart of the Tunnel District on its journey west. The head-end of the train is approaching Tunnel 21, in the distance the train is still passing through Tunnel 20, and even further back (not in the picture), the back of the train is still in Tunnel 19!
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No wonder the Tunnel Motor was invented to help keep engines cool! You can clearly see the heat distortion floating at the top of Tunnel 20, a 460 foot-long tunnel in the Tunnel District.
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Tunnel 20 is more than long enough to keep both units on the head end of this coal empty in the dark as the train makes it way west. Tunnel 20 is one of the few tunnel in the Tunnel District that is straight as an arrow.
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The lead unit on a westbound coal empty approaches the east portal of Tunnel 20. While Tunnel 20 is by no means the shortest tunnel in the Tunnel District, at 460 feet, it is not even close to the longest either.
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Two units on the back of this westbound coal empty see some daylight as the train moves through the Tunnel District between Tunnel 19 and Tunnel 20. The train would eventually stop at Winter Park and wait for a few hours for a rock slide in Byers Canyon to get cleaned up.
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