Passenger Trains > AP: Tickets Sell Out for Train from Downtown Denver....

DENVER — All 400 tickets were sold within 12 hours for a one-day, roundtrip ski-train excursion from downtown Denver to Winter Park, according to spokesmen for the resort and Amtrak.

The response helps build the case for resuming a regular alternative to increasingly congested roads, they said Thursday.

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Article mentions ski train was cancelled due to costs/insurance. Is that true?

(I see the original offering of tickets has been discussed below...)

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/15 13:49 by jofegan.

A friend on Facebook posted the following:
"I'm on standby. They're talking about adding more cars too."
Sounds like the train length and number of passengers could be increased.
~wko

But where will the equipment and operating crews come from? Amtrak is short on both.

** wringing hands and taking medication for the peptic ulcer **

CA_Sou_MA_Agent Wrote:
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> But where will the equipment and operating crews
> come from? Amtrak is short on both.
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> ** wringing hands and taking medication for the
> peptic ulcer **


They will add Gandy Dancers for the cars ;)

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

Present consist is three superliner coach, three superliner bag coach. Skis go into bag coach.

No food or beverage service.

Can someone advise if the Rio Grande trains had any beverage/snack service.

CA_Sou_MA_Agent Wrote:
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> But where will the equipment and operating crews
> come from? Amtrak is short on both.
>
> ** wringing hands and taking medication for the
> peptic ulcer **


Quick call to Alamosa would solve problem #1!

mundo Wrote:
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> Present consist is three superliner coach, three
> superliner bag coach. Skis go into bag coach.
>
> No food or beverage service.
>
> Can someone advise if the Rio Grande trains had
> any beverage/snack service.

They certainly did. After-ski drinks and snacks were very big on that train. The consist included three Club Car class cars and two Cafe Lounge cars. Google Rio Grande Ski Train and lots of material will come up.

symph1 Wrote:
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> mundo Wrote:
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> > Present consist is three superliner coach,
> three
> > superliner bag coach. Skis go into bag coach.
> >
> > No food or beverage service.
> >
> > Can someone advise if the Rio Grande trains had
> > any beverage/snack service.
>
> They certainly did. After-ski drinks and snacks
> were very big on that train. The consist included
> three Club Car class cars and two Cafe Lounge
> cars. Google Rio Grande Ski Train and lots of
> material will come up.

With the Capitol's lounges sidelined perhaps Amtrak could come up with one for this train....couldn't pick a better route for a sightseer car.

Dave

The Denver extra board will probably run the train. They would have run the train that Ed Ellis was planning.