Amtrak #5 skirts along the Colorado River down the Dotsero Cutoff

Tunnel 16 Amtrak 5 the California Zephyr is running through the big tangent in South Draw from tunnel 16 on June 14, 2024.

Evening at Plainview Eastbound at Plain, tunnel 1 up next. Amtrak California Zephyr is on time.

Amtrak #5 tears past the west end of 'Utahline' crossing into Utah from Colorado at the mouth of Ruby Canyon.

The passengers of Amtrak number 5 are being treated to a pristine morning in the Sierra Nevada as they climb along the Truckee River in an area east of Truckee, CA known as Glenshire. Aside from t... (more)

A late season winter storm coats the Front Range with snow as Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr rolls through Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 27, 2024.

Amtrak’s California Zephyr dashes its way west through a winter wonderland at Crescent while slowly climbing Colorado’s Front Range mountains on March 15, 2024.

On March 15, 2024, after 42 inches of snow fell on Crescent during a major Colorado Front Range storm, the view of snow-covered scenery from Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr would have been ... (more)

Amtrak P42 174, wearing the newest scheme, leads the California Zephyr West though Brookfield.

On March 20, 1949, the first run of the original California Zephyr departed Chicago, Illinois, bound for the west coast. A 75th anniversary run of the westbound California Zephyr, Amtrak’s train... (more)

Amtrak GE P42DC No. 82 has been repainted in the new Phase VII paint scheme and leads the westbound California Zephyr as it approaches Plainview, Colorado, on March 19, 2024.

Rural Grand County Rural beauty on the west side of the Great Divide in winter west of Grandby, CO

Amtrak train 5, the tri-weekly westbound San Francisco Zephyr, crosses the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains as it heads west from Chicago to Oakland … but, oddly, not to its namesake ... (more)

Slowest Permanent Speed Order California Zephyr is running a little late through Beyers Canyon into the 15 degree west of Sulphur the slowest permanent speed restriction between Denve... (more)

February Morning Light at Tunnel 1 An easy place to play the sun with a daily westbound.