The calendar says spring, but the weather says winter at Crescent, Colorado, on April 23, 1999. Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs the Front Range of the Rockies through a snowy wonderlan... (more)
The sun is setting rapidly, like a metaphor for the locomotive leading this train. Almost half of the trains I saw this day had ACS-64s; the replacement for the AEM-7 and HHP. As my dad says, &q... (more)