Mother Nature provides a gold and blue palate for a colorful sunrise to greet the California Zephyr as it travels west to Denver, Colorado.

Beautiful winter wonderland flock covers the entire valley at Pinecliffe, CO with 10” of new snow overnight. Amtrak’s early morning Winter Park Express is an ideal subject for the morning. Sil... (more)

Shortly after dawn, Amtrak's City of New Orleans passes downtown Memphis. In a minute or so the train will arrive at Memphis Central Station. 59 was running about a half hour late which allowed ... (more)

Amtrak 175 leads the Colorado Ski Train over Coal Creek Canyon Road and will soon make the climb up to Tunnel #1 as it heads towards the Winter Park Ski Resort.

The morning's Colorado Ski Train passes a BNSF freight (with assisting UP engine) which has taken the siding at Big Ten Curve.

AMTK 175 (P42DC) leads the morning Colorado Ski Train up the steep grade towards Tunnel 1. The train will navigate the colorfully wrapped passenger cars through 30 more tunnels as it makes its wa... (more)

The early sunrise washes the valley and the track of the Big Ten Curve in a golden hour glow, catching the Amtrak Ski Train as it makes the morning run from Denver to the Winter Park Ski Resort ne... (more)

The Colorado Ski Train is once again in operation for the 2020 season. Here we see Amtrak 175 leaving the Denver skyline behind at dawn as it climbs through Big Ten Curve. The train shuttles rider... (more)

Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train has just departed Fraser, Colorado, and is now climbing Winter Park Hill past milepost 60 headed to the platform at Winter Park to load skiers and passenge... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train passes Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train laying over in the siding at Fraser, Colorado, on February 8, 2019.

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)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr making its station stop at Fraser, Colorado, meets the Winter Park Express ski train laying over in Fraser siding on January 11, 2019.

Looking out the rear windows of Gulf, Mobile & Ohio private car No. 50, “The Patrón Tequila Express,” reveals Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train laying over in the siding at Fraser, Col... (more)

The first run of the 2019 Winter Park Express/Ski Train works upgrade and away from Denver. This year there was a lounge car added to the middle of the consist.

Headed South. With the U.S. Capitol in the background on a very, very cold day in the nation's capital, Amtrak 95 heads out of town almost exactly on schedule.