Running several hours behind schedule, Amtrak's California Zephyr skirts along the shoreline of the Great Salt Lake about 20 minutes from it's regular station stop at Salt Lake City.
#54 and #97 head the California Zephyr across the pointwork and away out of Martinez on a hot May morning - its a long way to Chicago. See more at www.youthwith.fotopic.net
The crazy things railfans do to get a picture. I left my house at 4:30AM this morning and drove about 100 miles over a 9100’ pass to get to the town of Wellington, Utah just so I could take this... (more)