KYUNE, Utah — The test train for next year’s expansion of Rocky Mountaineer service to Salt Lake City is well into its six-day round trip from Denver.
Rocky Mountaineer’s parent company, now known as Armstrong Collective, announced earlier this month that in 2026, it would add three-day trips between Denver and Salt Lake City to the current overnight trips between Denver and Moab, Utah., with a one-night stay in Glenwood Springs, Colo. The U.S. operation will be renamed Canyon Spirit [see “Rocky Mountaineer U.S. operations …,” Trains News Wire, March 18, 2025].
The company had reported it would run a training trip for the new service this year, prior to the start of its 2025 season of the two-day “Rockies to Red Rocks” excursions [see “Rocky Mountaineer ‘Rockies to Red Rocks’ trips …,” News Wire, March 19, 2025]. On Friday, the train traveled the new portion of the three-day route, arriving in Salt Lake City after its Moab stop. The return trip began Saturday, and will spend tonight (March 30) in Glenwood Springs before arriving in Denver on Monday, March 31.
