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Skiing in Grand County goes back well over a hundred years. Hot Sulphur Springs Winter Sports Club was established on October 23, 1911, by Swiss immigrant John Peyer and 25 members.
Railfan & Railroad Extra Board When one of the Ski Train F40s went down, UP used its Rio Grande heritage unit to lead the train in February 2007, heading west at Rocky, Colo. Tyler Eaton photo by Steve Patterson/photos as noted When Union Pacific was building the first Transcontinental Railroad westward from Omaha, Neb., it clipped across the northeast corner of Colorado at Julesburg, bound for its destiny at Promontory, Utah. Hardly two years old, the new city of Denver was terribly upset it wasn’t on the first railroad’s map. So the city leaders incorporated their own railroad to build...