{"id":22146,"date":"2020-03-29T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63980"},"modified":"2020-03-29T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T21:50:11","slug":"amtrak-suspends-winter-park-express-part-of-california-zephyr-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/amtrak-suspends-winter-park-express-part-of-california-zephyr-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak suspends Winter Park Express, part of California Zephyr line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"28.896735905045\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/amtrak-shn-030819.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/amtrak-shn-030819.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/amtrak-shn-030819-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>The Winter Park Express, which is the Amtrak line that services Denver to Winter Park Resort.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Amtrak announced on Sunday several service changes because of significantly less demand in certain areas.<\/p>\n<p>With the current closure of Winter Park Resort, Amtrak has stopped operating the Winter Park Express for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak also reduced stops on the California Zephyr line, which normally runs between Emeryville, California, and Chicago. The reduced line won\u2019t run from Reno, Nevada, to Denver, meaning the train will only travel between Denver and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include Amtrak only accepting cashless payments, reducing staff at stations and suspending cafe service on certain lines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<style>.shn-donation{background:#272727;max-width:100%;margin:0 auto}.shn-donation .logo{width:50%;margin:1rem 0 1rem}.shn-donation h1{font-size:2rem;text-transform:none;color:#fff}.shn-donation p{color:#fff;font-weight:300}.shn-donation hr{width:20%;border-top:4px solid #000}.shn-donation .btn{padding:.5rem 2rem;background-color:#fff!important;border-radius:0}.shn-donation .btn a{color:rgb(85,0,13)}.shn-donation .btn:hover{background-color:rgb(85,0,13)!important}.shn-donation .btn:hover a{color:#fff!important}.shn-donation .col-xl-5.p-0{background-image:url(https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/shn-donate-cta-bg.jpg);background-size:cover;min-height:330px}@media (min-width:768px){.shn-donation .logo{width:35%}}@media (min-width:1440px){.shn-donation{text-align:left}.shn-donation hr{margin-left:0}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"row shn-donation p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/donate\/?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=news%20article&amp;utm_campaign=donation\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amtrak is waiving change fees on all existing or new reservations made before May 31.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.368068833652\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 pr-4 pl-4\" readability=\"17.792307692308\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers around Grand County make the Sky-Hi News&#8217; work possible. 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With the current closure of Winter Park Resort, Amtrak has stopped operating the Winter Park Express for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 17:44:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}