Heading for the slopes
The Rio Grande Ski Train rumbles toward Tunnel 1 on a pristine Rocky Mountain morning.

The Ski Train waits at the station in Fraser.

As they say pictures are worth a thousand words and this photo is not one to disappoint. Now that the Denver Ski Train is gone, all the pictures that I took are invaluable. Here the Ski Train is... (more)

The summer Ski Train en route to to Winter Park on a beautiful Colorado day.

Engineer Jobe watches as Conductor Frazier gets off at track 6 switch as they put the Ski Train to 6 track and out of the way. The Ski Train will need to send a car over to the UP passenger shop n... (more)

The Ski Train sits in the yard at Council Bluffs waiting for some decisions to be made. The train was found to have a bad baring and needs to be changed. Now the process of how and who will come t... (more)

On this Sunday afternoon, as the storm clouds roll in, the Ski Train makes its final run of the 2009 winter season, passing through Rocky. Little would we know that 23 days later, the Ski Train wo... (more)

The Ski Train heads west about to enter Tunnel One on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.

The second ski train of the season climbs the front range at Clay, CO. This train is a welcome addition to usual coal and Amtrak trains.

My first Railpictures.net photo!!

The Ski Train departs Fraser and heads to Winter Park to pick up the days skiers eager to return to Denver. Two hours earlier it was really snowing hard. Got to love Colorado weather.

"Thru the Rockies, not around them". The motto of the fallen flag Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad lives on in the Ski Train with Rio Grande colors, passenger cars and nose logo. Here is the S... (more)

While waiting for passengers to board the Ski Train, the private car "Kansas" (formerly the "Wilson McCarthy") sits in the OS section at the east end of Winter Park. A classic Rio Grande signals s... (more)

Ski train heads west toward tunnel 1 on the x-Rio Grande, now UP.