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)

The Winter Park Express Ski Train heads back to the passenger platform at dusk and will take exhausted skiers back to Denver, Colorado. After a day full of skiing, snowboarding and tubing it feel... (more)

Winter Park Express Arrival

Moments after emerging from Moffat West Portal at Winter Park Resort the Winter Park Express has begun detraining eager skiers and vacationing... (more)

The snowpack at the Holiday Valley ski resort in Ellicottville, New York is melting off in the April sunshine as a Buffalo & Pittsburgh coal train heads northbound through the valley. While it loo... (more)

The crew of Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train help skiers load their gear in the baggage compartment of a Superliner coach/baggage car at Winter Park, Colorado, on March 13, 2020. It turns ... (more)

A large group of skiers wait for Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train to come to a stop at the platform at Winter Park, Colorado, at the end of the day on February 8, 2019. A quick trip throug... (more)

UP 3075 leads an eastbound through Truckee in September 1998.

Cable car near the upper station Weissfluhjoch (2662m asl), taken from the chair lift. Right the SLF (Schnee- und Lawinenforschungsinstitut = Snow- and snowslide-research), in the middle the resta... (more)

Popping out of the Norden snowshed into the late afternoon sun, a westbound intermodal train has crested Donner Pass and will soon battle gravity for the 40-odd mile descent to the California lowl... (more)

No fooling, the Vermont Rail System's Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision is bridged by two of Okemo Mountain Resort's Jackson Gore trails - Southern Crossing and Fast Track - and is... (more)

SPMW 209 ducks under the last remaining searchlight signal bridge on Donner Pass. Meanwhile, skiers enjoy perfect snow conditions at the nearby Sugar Bowl Ski Resort.

Apparently - according to Okemo Mountain Resort - this is the only place in North America that one can ski over a moving train on trails built on bridges over trackage! The Vermont Rail System's ... (more)

Green Mountain Railroad train #263 is seen crossing high above Ludlow, Vermont, with the Okemo Ski Resort visible in the distance. The train is led by VTR SD70M-2 431, GMTX GP38-2 2208 and VTR GP4... (more)

Skiers and snowboarders are enjoying a sunny winter day as the Union Pacific ZG2LT exits the snowshed at Norden, California.

Grande Gold at Winter Park, 'Colorado's Favorite Ski Resort'.