The Rio Grande ski train occupies the main line and has pulled up to Winter Park ski resort to pick up its passengers for a prompt 4:15 p.m. departure back to Denver on Feb. 5, 1984. The west por... (more)

With two GP40-2s charging up the 2% grade, Rio Grande’s ski train is a little over half way to the slopes at Winter Park at the west portal of Moffat Tunnel. The unique motor car shed at Pinecl... (more)

A tradition that lasted 73 years out of Denver, Rio Grande’s ski train behind two GP40-2s very quietly slips through Crescent, Colo. on its way home with exuberant but tired skiers on March 20, ... (more)

The Rio Grande Zephyr begins its 570-mile westward journey to Salt Lake City promptly at 7:30 on March 19, 1983. Waiting to board on the adjacent track is the Rio Grande Ski Train.

Punctuated by dome-observation Silver Sky, the Rio Grande Zephyr pauses in Denver Union Station after arriving from Grand Junction. Soon the consist will be taken away for servicing. Tomorrow, the... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train threads its way out of Denver Union Station.

The Rio Grande Ski Train begins its journey to Winter Park. Along with the regular train of ex-NP coaches, two dome cars not needed for today's Zephyr are included in the consist.

It's Saturday morning at Denver Union station. On the left, the Rio Grande Zephyr is boarding, in anticipation of its 7:30 departure to Salt Lake City. On the right, the Rio Grande ski train is wa... (more)

A Rio Grande switcher pauses in front of the yard office.

Rio Grande and UP/SP power being serviced.

Coming home for the last time --- as the sun was setting D&RGW's "Rio Grande Zephyr" Train 18 was arguably in one of the route's most popular locations --- Glenwood Canyon --- after departing Glen... (more)

High country blizzard
During a windy and frigid springtime snowstorm, a Rio Grande coal train approaches the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado.

Eastbound #234 nears the end of its climb up to the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel - 3111, 3061 and 3117 approach Winter Park in February 1982.

Thundering through Fraser, a wall of engines, in the form of 3120, 3058, 3084, 3046, 3104 and 5334, move an eastbound freight upgrade towards the Moffat Tunnel and on to Denver, in June 1981.

An eastbound coal crawls out of Fraser on the final leg of the climb to the Moffat Tunnel in January 1982 in the capable hands of 5382 5404 5364 5399 and 5403, with helpers 3125 and 3097 behind th... (more)