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Wife and I plus another couple got on Amtrak at Osceola, Iowa for a ski trip to Glenwood Springs, Colorado. We got the sleeper compartments which was a good idea.
They stopped the train for exactly 4 minutes and two conductors jumped down and tossed our gear on the train. We brought our own adult beverages and some snacks.
We stopped once more at Omaha, then went screaming into the flatlands along I-80 at 80 + mph on smooth, continuous welded rail.
We got to Denver at noon and had lunch on the train, stepping off for ten minutes to look inside the train retail store.
The uphill pull was slow out of Denver but we arrived Glenwood at about 3pm. The station was across the street from the hotel and we walked over and checked in. The hotel package included a ski pass and rental skis. Good fun, good chow.
We flew back.