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Fun Train and Snow Train -- all rights owned by Key Holidays / All photo and video owned and copyrighted by Train Arts, 2007
The Key Holiday Reno Fun Train shows a STOP sign at the Sparks UP yard Amtrak coachclass and businessclass cars end to end


Amtrak 194 at the head of the Reno Fun Train in the Sparks, Nevada Union Pacific yard

Emeryville
Emigrant/Nyack/Soda Springs Snow
Hirschdale Road
Colfax / Cape Horn / Hwy 20
THIS IS Sparks Yard - Truckee / Soda Springs

Key Holidays runs the Snow Train and the Fun Train from Emeryville to Reno. The guests spend the night in a hotel, the train spends the night in the Sparks Union Pacific yard before heading home Thursdays and Sundays, January through March.



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Amtrak locomotive 194 at night in the Union Pacific Sparks Yard at the head of the Reno Fun Train

This Amtrak 194 locomotive is a little beaten up but still photographs well. It's dusk and the train leaves for the Bay Area the next day.

side of the Fun Train's Southern Pacific Daylight passenger car, painted in blue and grey on the other side

One car typically on the Fun and Snow Trains is an old Southern Pacific passenger car. It's painted in Daylight colors on one side, and another color scheme on the other side.

My favorite photo of Truckee showing the Snow Train passing through

Here's my favorite shot of Truckee. In the video, you hear the engineer say, "Highball Truckee" just as the train passes the camera.
A long view of the Reno Snow train at Soda Springs

This long shot shows most of the train. Just behind the trees is Soda Springs and Donner Pass Road. These photos are taken from the Royal Gorge cross country ski area.
Key Holiday's Snow Train passing Royal Gorge cross country ski parking lot

This photo shows the Rio Grande 'Royal Gorge' passenger car passing the Royal Gorge ski area.
A closer view of the Rio Grande Royal Gorge car

Here's a closer shot of the Royal Gorge car.
Key Holiday's Snow Train passing Royal Gorge cross country ski parking lot

Here's a shot of the Amtrak Dome / Observation car # 10031
A long view of the Reno Snow train at Soda Springs

This 10031 car was on every Snow or Fun Train I saw this season in Feb and March. At times there was also a Santa Fe Plaza car on the train, but not on this trip.