One of the newly painted Phase VII P42DC's leads the Amtrak Winter Park Express Ski Train through Plainview, Colorado. A heavy snowstorm dropped three feet of snow in the area.

Train Time at Winter Park WPE is Early! And early, daylight savings and backing up an hour blessed us with first light over the Great Divide over Winter Park Resort for the arrival of th... (more)

Train Time at Winter Park WPE is Early! And early, daylight savings and backing up an hour blessed us with first light over the Great Divide over Winter Park Resort for the arrival of th... (more)

CB (Conductor Brad) gives a salute to the crowd of railfans watching the first passenger train come up the FRS to Longmont in over 8 years!

Snow blowing through the trees with a setting sun creates snow rays as the Amtrak Winter Park Express Ski Train exits the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel.

A very rare occurrence happened today as Governor Polis of Colorado organized a special run of an Amtrak train from Denver to Longmont to promote a new Amtrak route between Denver and Cheyenne, Wy... (more)

This view offers a good look at the detailed painting of the new Phase VII paint scheme for Amtrak engine #174 (P42DC).

Amtrak engine #174 in the new Phase VII paint brings the California Zephyr through the BNSF yard in Denver, Colorado.

After arriving in Denver on the front of the California Zephyr, Amtrak engine #174 gets positioned in the Denver Yard until the Winter Park Express Ski Train returns from its run to the ski resort... (more)

One of Amtrak's newest painted P42DC (#174) led the California Zephyr from Chicago to Denver, where the colorful unit will be pulled off and assigned to the Winter Park Express Ski Train.

Phase VII Phase In: At long last, the "blue wave" era has begun to draw to a close with the appearance of P42DC 174. Recently refurbished at Beech Grove, this classic Genesis was repainted ... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief splits the semaphore signals of East Colmor as it races westward towards Las Vegas, NM.

Amtrak 91 paces traffic on US 17 into Seville

Friendly Waves greet us as Amtrak 91 whisks through on time, leaving a fog bank in it's wake.

The California Zephyr 5 train rounds the corner at the base of Big Ten Curve and will begin the climb up the Moffat Tunnel Sub towards the Continental Divide.