After a successful first season, expanded service was announced for the 2017/2018 season, including first-Friday round trips and lower ticket prices for some departures. The train utilizes the Superliner equipment used on the "California Zephyr". For the 2019/2020 ski season, Winter Park's 80th, service was increased to three-day weekends (Friday-Sunday) for January through March. Over the years, there have been a few notable incidents and service disruptions. In the 1960s, 22-car trains to Winter Park were regularly moving an estimated 1800 passengers, many of them young, unsupervised and sometimes rowdy Eskimo Ski Club members. On one trip a brazen youngster pulled the emergency brake on a moving train, damaging one coach's coupler and steam line. The railroad hired three sheriff's deputies to help maintain order. In 2006, during the Ski Train days, there were several service disruptions. On Saturday, January 21, the return trip was canceled after a coal train derailment blocked the line, leaving some 700 passengers stuck in Winter Park. Buses were summoned to provide return transportation to Denver, and refunds offered to those who made alternate arrangements. Just two months later, on Sunday, March 19, another freight train derailment delayed the return Ski Train for almost six hours, with the train arriving in Denver around midnight. The following ski season, but still in the same calendar year, a blizzard forced cancellation of two trains over the long New Year's weekend: Friday, Dec. 29 and Saturday, Dec. 30. In 2017, the Winter Park Express suffered its first major service disruption: a freight train derailment forced the cancellation of the Saturday, March 11 train. In March 2020, the "Winter Park Express" ended seasonal service earlier than scheduled as part of a round of service reduction in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.