It’s snowing at East Portal, Colorado, as the Rio Grande Ski Train heads west toward the Moffat Tunnel on the morning of March 24, 2007.

My wife Katie, Riley the Beagle, along with Miniature Pinscher brother Kevin, intently watch the westbound Rio Grande Ski Train climbing through Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Clay Colorado, on Ju... (more)

The turning point for the Rio Grande Ski Train operating from Denver to Winter Park is the wye at Tabernash, Colorado. After unloading passengers just outside the west end of the Moffat Tunnel at ... (more)

In a early springtime snowstorm, the Rio Grande Ski Train curves west out of Clay, Colorado, on March 29, 2007.

Climbing toward Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Clay, Colorado, is the Rio Grande Ski Train on the morning of March 3, 2006.

On the morning of February 15, 2008, Ansco’s westbound Rio Grande Ski Train approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado,

On the morning of January 14, 2006, the westbound Rio Grande Ski Train approaches Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado.

The Rio Grande Ski Train approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on February 15, 2008.

The Rio Grande Ski Train crosses over an icy South Boulder Creek just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 2, 2006.

The colorful Rio Grande Ski Train approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on a sunny January 28, 2006.

With three of his private cars on the rear chartered by happy groups, the Anschutz ski train glides into Arvada, Colo. headed for those skyscrapers of Denver on the old D&RGW on April 1, 1995.

The Anschutz Corporation’s ski train passes westbound through Arvada, Colo. during the sun’s low equinox on Jan. 6, 2007, just two years before owner Phillip Anschutyz would sell the train, in... (more)

Just after sunrise on March 8, 2009, the Rio Grande Ski Train climbs out of Leyden, Colorado—its 16 cars and three F40PH locomotives reflecting the morning sun beneath a pastel sky.

The Rio Grande Ski Train climbs the 2-percent grade between Rocky and Clay, Colorado, on June 30, 2007. Three former Amtrak F40PHs power the westbound train, which is a “summer edition” of the... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train is westbound between Fraser and Tabernash, Colorado, on January 15, 2005. An impressive and snowy Continental Divide towers over the train, which is headed to the wye at T... (more)