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News Wire: Amtrak, Winter Park to expand ski train presence, lower prices

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Friday, August 25, 2017 1:11 PM

DENVER — Coming off a successful inaugural season, Amtrak announced this week that it will expanding the Winter Park Express schedule and lower ticket prices. The Saturday and Sunday ski train between Denver Union Station and the Winter Park ...

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Posted by MidlandMike on Sunday, August 27, 2017 8:05 PM

A lot of week-long ski trippers arrive/depart on Saturdays.  Aftre the ski train drops off day trippers at Winter Park, they could pick up ski-week vacationers and bring them back to Denver, where they could catch the RTD train to the airport (or the Zephyr), and pick-up the next weeks vacationers, and take them up to Winter Park, arriving in time to take the day-trippers back to Denver.

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