An eastbound Union Pacific coal train climbs Winter Park hill leaving Fraser, Colorado, on February 16, 2002, passing people waiting for a lift back up to the top of the Fraser Tubing Hill.

A Grand Junction to North Yard in Denver freight train pulls out of the siding at Fraser on the Moffat Tunnel Sub. The train had pulled into the siding to do work and maybe meet an empty coal trai... (more)

A loaded eastbound coal train passes some remnants of the Rio Grande at Fraser, CO on UP's Moffat Tunnel Sub.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train climbs Winter Park hill leaving Fraser, Colorado, on February 16, 2002. Just visible across from the station at Fraser is the Rio Grande Ski Train, led by an ... (more)

At the appointed time on February 16, 2002, the Rio Grande Ski Train departs Fraser and heads up the grade to Winter Park to pick up a trainload of tired skiers ready to head back home to Denver. ... (more)

While skiers enjoy the slopes of Winter Park, the Rio Grande Ski Train is being turned on the wye at Tabernash, Colorado, then will go east to the next siding at Fraser until it is time to head ba... (more)

Power for Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train is running around their train at Fraser, Colorado, on March 13, 2020. The nexts day’s round trip to Winter Park and Fraser will be the last for... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, meets Amtrak No. 1006, the Winter Park Express ski train, in the siding at Fraser, Colorado, on March 13, 2020.

Amtrak GE P42DC No. 189 displays its “The Heartland Flyer’s Big Game Train” lettering while powering Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train at Fraser, Colorado, on March 13, 2020.

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr snakes through the “s curve” at milepost 60 between Fraser and Winter Park, Colorado, on the afternoon of January 11, 2019. On the rear of the train is p... (more)

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight passes by Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train tied down in the siding at Fraser, Colorado, on January 20, 2018. The 2018 edition of the WPE utilized Amtrakâ... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr departs from its station stop at Fraser, Colorado, as an engineman aboard Amtrak P42DC No. 193 waves to the crew of Amtrak’s Winter Park Express tied down ... (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.

Eastbound ski train