Powered by a pair of Rio Grande EMD GP60s, a summer run of Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train works upgrade through Clay, Colorado, on the morning of July 15, 2000.

Rio Grande EMD GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3154 power a summer edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 5, 2000. For a short while anyway, these ... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP60 No. 3155 leads Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train around the wye at Tabernash, Colorado, on March 22, 1997.

After Union Pacific began operation of the Moffat Tunnel line in the wake of the Southern Pacific merger, there was a brief era when UP assigned Rio Grande’s GP60s to the Ski Train. On the morni... (more)

On the morning of March 21, 1997, the Rio Grande Ski Train approaches Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, led by Rio Grande EMD GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3156.

The Rio Grande Ski Train passes milepost 39 at Pactolus west of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 21, 1997, led by Rio Grande EMD GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3156.

The Rio Grande Ski Train has finished turning on the wye at Tabernash, Colorado, and is now heading east to Fraser on March 22, 1997. The 18-car train is powered by Rio Grande GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3... (more)

Rio Grande GP60 No. 3155 leads the Ansco Rio Grande Ski Train towards Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, on August 2, 1998. This summer edition of the train is operated to Winter Park for ... (more)

It’s almost 9:00 p.m. on the evening of July 16, 1998, at Colorado’s Denver Union Station. Rio Grande EMD GP60s sit on one of the station tracks and are being used as protection power for the ... (more)

For awhile the UP had the 3 Rio Grande GP60's running together on the Denver to Pueblo trains over the Joint Line. Here the trio make their way south towards Pueblo somewhere north of Palmer Lake.... (more)

Rio Grande GP60 No. 3155 is about to enter the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel at Winter Park, Colorado, on August 1, 1998. after 6.21 miles of darkness, the locomotive will emerge into daylight ... (more)

The MDVRO is illuminated by an incredible golden hour sunset at Riverton siding on Aug. 19, 1998.

Used regularly on the Ski Trains, a pair of DRGW's GP 60's were the power on the Ski Train as it layed over in the siding at Fraser while it's mainly skier passengers enjoyed the nearby slopes at ... (more)

Grande Gold at Winter Park, 'Colorado's Favorite Ski Resort'.

A pair of EMD GP60s pull the Rio Grande Ski Train through Coal Creek Canyon on March 28, 1997.