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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 ...
Between Denver and Winter Park Resort, the Zephyr shares a route with the Winter Park Express, a service that runs only during the peak Winter season (mid-December through March) and is used primarily by tourists heading to the ski resorts located in Winter Park. [24] [25]
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Ski Train (1940-2009), later revived and rebranded as the Winter Park Express (2015, 2017–present) Boston & Maine's Snow Train; Gore Mountain Snow Train (1934-1940s and 2011-2018) Wachusett Mountain
Passengers enjoy the sightseer lounge car on Amtrak's California Zephyr during its daily 2,438-mile trip to Emeryville/San Francisco from Chicago that takes roughly 52 hours on March 24, 2017 in ...
Winter Park Express: State-supported Denver – Winter Park Resort: 1105, 1106 3-4 weekly round trips (seasonal) 16,209 [2] 56 Wolverine: State-supported
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.
The mountain opened for the 1939–40 season as Winter Park Ski Area [3] and was owned and operated by the city and county of Denver until 2002, when Denver entered into a partnership with Intrawest ULC, a Canadian corporation headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, which operated the resort until Intrawest was acquired by Alterra Mountain Company in 2018.
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