The slopes at Winter Park are roughly cut in half by the low-level clouds hanging around in Fraser Valley. As the skiers enjoy their day at the resort, the Ski Train (with the Kansas on the rear) sits at Fraser while waiting for the return trip which should begin around 3:15pm.
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A blizzard moves into the Fraser Valley quickly as the Ski Train patiently waits in the siding at Fraser.
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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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The nose of SKTX 289 (left) meets face-to-face with the nose of SKTX 283 (right) on Track Two and Union Station. In the background, Amtrak 5 sits on Track One, waiting for passengers to board.
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Looking out the back of the Vista Dome of the California on the Ski Train. Back in the days of the Rio Grande Zephyr, people saw this particular view on a daily basis (of course, never on Wednesday!)
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A shot from the inside of the Vista Dome on the California (looking toward the front of the train). I could handle traveling cross-country in a car like this!
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The Ski Train has 17 cars in the winter making it over a quarter of a mile long! Here is the entire train sitting on the siding at Fraser waiting to head back to Winter Park to pick up its passengers for the trip back to Denver.
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Just below tunnel 29, the Ski Train is rounding a sharp curve and passing snow-covered pine trees near the top of South Boulder Canyon.
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On a chilly Colorado afternoon, the Ski Train is running just a smidge late as it heads east through the S-Curves at Blue Mountain, just west of Clay.
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The Ski Train, with five BNSF business cars on the end, makes its way west through Clay on a beautiful morning after a night where four inches of fresh powder fell.
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An unusual end to the Ski Train, five BNSF business cars bring up the rear of the train as the head end of the train comes out of Little Ten Curve.
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On this morning, BNSF was running a marketing campaign and they took five business cars along (in place of five standard "coach" cars on the Ski Train).
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The vista dome of the California is covered in snow as the Ski Train makes its way through Little Ten Curve.
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After the first good snow along the front range in 2006, the Ski Train makes its way west through Rocky on the main track.
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In this timed exposure shot (30 seconds), the crossing gates at Leyden go up after the Ski Train passes while the crossing gates at Simms (next crossing to the east) go down as the Ski Train approaches.
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