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 passengers... (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 through ... (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, Colorado, ... (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.

Passengers onboard today's southbound Coast Starlight were likely a bit worried as the passed through the small town of Santa Margarita looking up to a wall of smoke from the raging Cuesta Fire. L... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, rushes past Pactolus Lake west of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on September 24, 2001. The largest building on the right is the former ice house that once wa... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound Zephyr, cruises upgrade through a winter wonderland between Rollinsville and Tolland during a somewhat typical spring day in Colorado’s high country on April 20, 2003.

The Virginia extension of the Northeast Regional departs Lynchburg.

Benefitting from the efforts of Union Pacific's snow fighters, who had just carved a path through the snow belt, Amtrak 5 carefully slips down the western slope of the Sierra at Troy.