DENVER (AP) — The campaign to revive the Ski Train from Denver to the Winter Park Resort is getting a small boost with a $1.5 million state grant to improve a passenger platform at the ski area.
Resort spokesman Steve Hurlbert said Thursday the grant from the Colorado Transportation Commission doesn’t mean the train is a certainty, but it does show state support.
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The train ferried skiers to and from the resort every season from 1940 to 2009 when then-owner Philip Anschutz shut it down because of costs. The scenic 62-mile route includes the 6.2-mile-long Moffat Tunnel under the Continental Divide.
Hurlbert says the resort is still negotiating with Amtrak and the Union Pacific Railroad to restart the train, with a tentative target date of January 2017.
Union Pacific owns the tracks.
