Below you will see my all time favorite snow scene depicting the Denver South Park & Pacific at Alpine Tunnel. This original painting was created by Phil Ronfor back in the 1958 as I recall. I also seem to recall it was created for M.C. Poor's "Denver South Park & Pacific Pictorial Supplement" hard bound book, which was published in 1959. The original caption for the painting reads thus:
NIGHT TRAIN TO GUNNISON
A cold winter wind blows out of the west, and the full moon illuminates Alpine Pass in this mid-1880's scene. The night Pullman train for Gunnison, with oil head lamp and red markers aglow (at this time red markers on the front of the engine indicated a following section), pulls away from Alpine Tunnel station with the yellow squares from its coach windows flickering across the uneven surface of the snow. With quickening exhausts a Mason bogie, Denver South Park & Pacific 58, formerly the 14, named "Twin Lakes", passes the engine house as D. S. P. & P. 194, a Baldwin Consolidation, and the 53, another Mason bogie, enter after helping an eastbound freight from Pitkin to Alpine Tunnel.
Andre