Car #9, the Winter Park, has operated as the "home base" car on the Ski Train for many, many years. The Ski Train manager set up in this car and car hosts reported to this car in the mornings to get their assignments.
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The standard look to the Ski Train for almost the past decade. A trio of former Amtrak F40PHs have been in charge of the train. The units were purchased from Amtrak on a "lease-to-purchase" program, which was completed in 2004.
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One of the last looks at the Ansco Ski Train. The train was sold less than week earlier to a subsidiary of the Canadian National. Soon, the train will be off to Canada.
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Some of the final shots I ever expect to take of the Ski Train. The sale is complete and soon the train will be headed to its new home in Canada.
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Not only was this my final shot of the Ski Train for the 2008-2009 Winter Season, but as it turns out, this was my last shot of the Ansco Ski Train ever! The trip the next day would prove to be the last ever for the Ski Train under Phil Anschutz.
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The sun seemingly create a spotlight on Big Ten Curve as the Ski Train makes its way around on its descent toward Rocky.
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A look at the entire Ski Train and the snowy plains as seen from above Blue Mountain western Arvada. The trains is over halfway home, with roughly 22 miles left to go to Union Station.
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The Ski Train hustles down the main track at Tolland, indifferent to the extremes of the weather surrounding it. Inside the Kansas, a group of passengers enjoy the view out the back.
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Brrrr...it was freezing up at Tolland on this March afternoon. Not entirely because of the temperature outside, but because of the mix of the temperature and the wind! The Ski Train has a clear signal at Tolland. Note the yellow school house in the distance, just above the cab of the third F40PH.
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Despite how this image might look, it really isn't snowing! The wind is howling and kicking up a ton of sitting snow though as the Ski Train crosses the grade crossing at Tolland.
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Can you imagine how happy these passengers are making their way through this snow inside the comfort of the Ski Train rather than trying to drive over Berthoud Pass!
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I'm about to get nailed by shooting snow and I know it! But that's okay as the shot turned out quite nice! The rail isn't quite visible beneath the freshly fallen snow just east of 72nd Avenue in Arvada as the Ski Train makes its was east.
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Ten inches of snow have fallen here since the Ski Train headed west earlier in the day! This fairly common spring blizzard doesn't faze the Ski Train as it plows east toward Union Station.
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The tail end of the Ski Train as it hustles its way through a spring blizzard. The train is on the main track about halfway through Leyden.
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Only four runs left for the 2008-2009 Winter Ski Train and Colorado is trying to send it off with a bang! Snow starts falling at a rate a bit higher then an inch per hour as the Ski Train charges west through Leyden.
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