Winter Solstice Sunrise at Barr Lake

In a repeat attempt for several years, the first light of a Winter Solstice sunrise silhouettes Amtrak 5 over a frozen landscape at Bar... (more)

Low Ceiling Fog at Tunnel 7

Heavy rain the previous evening and part of the night with a cold front left a lot of moisture on the Flatirons. The resulting low ceiling fog and d... (more)

Heavy snow coated the entire Front Range including the Boulder Valley in the immediate distance and further east in this view through St Vrain and Longmont, CO. Amtrak is exiting tunnel 3 here in ... (more)

Amtrak California Zephyr is moving through the cuts and valleys east of Pinecliffe, CO just past Tunnel 27 and into the day lighted Tunnel 28. Overcast skies help reveal all the detail in the vall... (more)

Amtrak heritage unit 184 leads the Westbound California Zephyr through Highlands.

The California Zephyr Amtrak’s #5 is westbound from Denver, CO high along the Flatiron Range in rural Boulder County in the heart of the tunnel district between tunnel 7 and 8. Today Amtrak Heri... (more)

Amtrak #5, on time with the California Zephyr is passing through the Flatirons in Boulder County near tunnel 3 and 4 amidst a characteristically December Christmas week deep in the Tunnel District... (more)

Through the golden aspens, lifting the fallen leaves from the roadbed within the mountain meadows of Tolland, Amtrak California Zephyr is on time. Number 5 is about to crest the continent at the G... (more)

Last shot of the day, it's 8:12 p.m. and the sun is still up. Amtrak number 5 is at Colton, Utah.

In a heavy snow squall Amtrak #5 the California Zephyr blasts into view just past Winter Park on its way to Fraser Canyon.

Winter at Tunnel 1

Amtrak #5 is in the tangent west of tunnel in between Plainview and Coal Creek. Windy blizzard like conditions are whipping up fresh snow in the foot hil... (more)

Westbound on the former Rio Grande route through the Moffat Tunnel, Amtrak’s California Zephyr rumbles through Crescent, Colorado, on a cold January 5, 2005.

A trio of Amtrak GE P42DCs pull a long California Zephyr through Byers Canyon west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on February 16, 2002.

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr is led by Rio Grande EMD GP40 No. 3079 at the station stop of Grand Junction, Colorado, on February 25, 1988. Because of the long length of the Zephyr in thi... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr heads westbound out of Crescent, Colorado, on the morning of May 23, 2001. In the background is the 340-foot high Gross Reservoir Dam.