Photo ID: 111654 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 74 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak There is no train in the shot, but the shot was taken from a train! We are looking northeast over some low-hanging clouds. Just one example of the incredible views to be had from riding any passenger train through the Rockies. 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 74 (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: 111656 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 82 (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: 111657 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 68 (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: 111658 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 85 (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: 111659 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 96 (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: 111661 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 85 (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: 111662 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 81 (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: 111663 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 82 (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: 111664 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 84 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111665 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser (4,830 ft) Fraser, CO 133 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After dropping off the 18 passengers that were headed for Fraser, rather than Winter Park, the Winter Park Express Ski Train is ready to conduct its runaround move. The train is going to back up east on the main, out the east end of Fraser so it can enter into the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111666 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park to Fraser (MP 58 to MP 62) Fraser, CO 104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Amtrak's five car Winter Park Express Ski Train is on the main just east of Fraser. It is approaching a diverging approach signal, heading into the siding. It is preparing to perform its runaround move, placing the power on the opposite end of the train for the journey back east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111667 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser (4,830 ft) Fraser, CO 96 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 75 leads the Winter Park Express Ski Train into the siding at Fraser, the rails covered in snow after 3-4" of fresh snow fell overnight. The last train in the siding here at Fraser was this exact same Winter Park Express, yesterday! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111668 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser (4,830 ft) Fraser, CO 109 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Winter Park Express Ski Train slowly rolls west through the siding at Fraser. Note the green signal on the main at the east end of Fraser. Shortly, the train will come to a stop in the siding, cut the power away and run out onto the main track out the west end. The power will then head east back down the main and out the east end. Finally, it will re-enter the siding and attach to the cars so they can return east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111669 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser (4,830 ft) Fraser, CO 83 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Winter Park Express Ski Train is coming to a stop not too far from the west end of Fraser. The Superliners will be tied down, and the power will cut away to run around the train through the main and hook on the east end of the train for the return trip to Denver this afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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