In the cafe on the sightseer/lounge car, you can see the self-serve snacks that you can grab, as well as the menu showing everything available to passengers. Most folks that order in the morning get coffee, hot chocolate, or tea. Quite a few bar selections are served for the return trip to Denver.
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There is a sightseer/lounge car on the Winter Park Express Ski Train. The cafe is open for the trip up and the trip back, allowing passengers to buy a variety of food and drink. The cafe car attendant is based in Chicago, and spends 2-3 weeks in Denver, away from home, to work and serve customers on the journey.
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Looking out the back of Winter Park Express Ski Train, the morning sun breaks through mostly cloudy skies at the east end of Rocky. A thick layer of frost is covering most everything this morning, making for a very beautiful scene.
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The Winter Park Express, from which this picture was taken, is pulling across the Buck Lead, departing to the west. The westbound California Zephyr is running on time, and waiting for the Winter Park Express to clear so it can make its reverse move into Union Station.
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One of the two conductor's on the Winter Park Express, conductor Chris, is helping passengers by taking their equipment to load it onto the train. Both conductor Chris and conductor Antonio are absolutely amazing! They are friendly, kind, and always willing to help passengers in any way they can.
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With just over 20 minutes to go prior to departure, additional passengers walk down the platform of Track 5, carrying their equipment to the open baggage door on the coach/baggage car. The coach/baggage Superliner is the perfect car for hauling the ski equipment.
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One of the car hosts for the Winter Park Express Ski Train chats with Amtrak conductor Chris on the platform of Track 5 during a brief down moment, while waiting for more passengers to arrive.
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Passengers carry their ski or snow boarding boots as they walk down the platform along Track 5. The rest of their equipment has already been loaded into the baggage hold on the coach/baggage car.
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One of the numerous ski racks sit on the platform on Track 5 alongside the Winter Park Express. The train currently has two coach/baggage cars. The passengers skies and snowboards are loaded into the baggage compartments on these two cars. You can see the baggage hold open in the background.
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Looking at AMTK 146, currently the second unit on the Winter Park Express, note the "Ski Train" sticker with the classic Rio Grande herald on the side of the nose. A small, but wonderful, nod to the Ski Train(s) of yesteryear.
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A Rio Grande Ski Train sticker has been applied to the sides of the nose of both AMTK 75 and AMTK 146, the current power on the Winter Park Express Ski Train. A nice homage to the Rio Grande and Anschutz Ski Trains.
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Passengers are boarding on the Winter Park Express Ski Train on Track 5 at Denver Union Station. AMTK 75 will be the leader on the train this morning when it departs at 7am. Right now, at 6:25am, it is still nearly an hour from sunrise.
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Passengers ready to board the Winter Park Express Ski Train walk down the platform at Denver Union Station alongside Track 5. A car host greets the approaching passengers.
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This is a wonderful time of year to be riding on the Zephyr to your destination. Reports are that I-70, the main highway through the Rocky Mountains west of Denver, is at a stand still with congested traffic. Passengers on the Zephyr, however, get to bypass that headache and enjoy the frigid view out the train here at Tolland.
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The westbound Zephyr is kicking up a lot of snow as it is making track speed at Tolland, about three miles east of the Moffat Tunnel. The train has a standard consist this morning, showing off Amtrak's latest Phase 7 paint scheme with AMTK 79 leading.
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