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My return trip would depart Winter Park at 4:35 p.m. (right after the ski lifts close) and arrive in Denver around 7 p.m. Boarding was pretty easy. The train has a special compartment for ski gear.
The Winter Park Express is a passenger train operated by Amtrak on winter weekends between Denver Union Station and Winter Park Resort, Colorado.The scenic 56-mile (90 km) route uses the same line as the California Zephyr, climbing 4,000 feet (1,200 m) into the Front Range and passing through 30 tunnels—including the historic 6.2-mile (10.0 km) Moffat Tunnel under the Continental Divide ...
The modern train is the second iteration of a train named California Zephyr; the original train was privately operated and ran on a different route through Nevada and California. During fiscal year 2023, the California Zephyr carried 328,458 passengers, an increase of 13.1% over FY2022, [ 5 ] but down from its pre- COVID-19 pandemic ridership ...
I rode an Amtrak Superliner overnight train on the California Zephyr route from Colorado to Utah. Here's exactly how I spent each of the 15 hours.
Although its primary purpose today is as a rail route for coal and freight, and as a water tunnel from the Pacific watershed to the Denver area, it also sees use by Amtrak's California Zephyr and Winter Park Express. The tunnel's apex elevation of 9,239 feet (2,816 m) is the highest point on the Amtrak network.
Fraser–Winter Park station is a train station in Fraser, Colorado. It is served by Amtrak's California Zephyr, which runs once daily in each direction between Chicago, and Emeryville, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The station house is unstaffed, except during the winter months.
Amtrak Winter Park Express (2015, 2017–present), inherited from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Ski Train (1940-2009) Milwaukee Ski Bowl 1938–1950 (closed during several WWII years), Snoqualmie, Washington. Milwaukee Road trains (officially Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad) from Seattle and Tacoma offered ...
“You get a chance to relax,” said Sylvia Blishak, co-owner of Train Travel Consulting in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The California Zephyr Amtrak route running between Chicago and the San Francisco ...