One of my favorite trains exits tunnel one on the Moffat Route en-route to Winter Park.

Welded rail rolled at Colorado Fuel & Iron (CF&I) in 1997 stands ready for the task of supporting the eastbound Ski Train, which is approaching around the curve in the distance. Little did anybody... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train curves out of Rocky, Colorado, on July 31, 2004. In a few moments, it will be traveling through Clay on the upper track at the top of the photo. This train was operated in... (more)

Leaving Denver in its wake: The westbound Rio Grande Ski Train heads out of Denver just west of Leyden, Colorado, during sunrise on a bright January 6, 2001.

We didn’t know it at the time, but on the very last weekend of Denver’s Rio Grande Ski Train, the westbound passenger train full of excited skiers ascends the Colorado Rockies at Crescent on March... (more)

In short but scenic Rollins Canyon, the Rio Grande Ski Train exits Tunnel 30 east of Rollinsville, Colorado, on the morning of March 6, 2009. Rollins Canyon is inaccessible except by foot or rail,... (more)

A meet and a pass . . . the Rio Grande Ski Train is westbound out of Rocky, Colorado, on the cloudy morning of June 28, 2008. It just met a Union Pacific coal empty at Rocky siding, and is about t... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train waits at the Fraser, Colorado, station platform at dusk on a snowy January 3, 2004. Soon, the train will depart for Winter Park to pick up a load of exhausted skiers ready... (more)

The vista at Plainview: On July 28, 2001, the summer version of the Rio Grande Ski Train cruises out of Plain and is about to enter the final tunnel for the day; Tunnel 1. Operated in the warmer m... (more)

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)