The California Zephyr blasting West in the last bit of Winter light.

On the first white Christmas in the Chicago area in a few years, Amtrak 188 leads Amtrak 5 west through Brookfield, kicking up the snow.

The outbound California Zephyr is winning the race as it has over taken a Metra train that just departed Western Springs on the race track.

In July 1973, Amtrak No. 5, with an ex-UP E9 on the point, meets an eastbound SP drag in the hole at Colfax, CA. SP often put helpers behind the caboose to assist eastbounds and westbounds over Do... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr winds westbound through Tunnel 29 just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the morning of May 25, 2017.

After deboarding at the end of the line, I say hello to the locomotive that has been leading me across the country for the past 55 or so hours.

Amtrak train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, cruises along near Burns, CO on November 9, 2017.

Amtrak train 5 rounds a curve near Burns, CO on November 9, 2017.

With Little Gore Canyon in the background, Amtrak train 5 rolls along near Bond, CO on November 9, 2017.

Amtrak train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, approaches a tunnel near Radium, CO on November 9, 2017.

Amtrak train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, passes through a short tunnel in Gore Canyon outside of Kremmling, CO on November 9, 2017.

Amtrak train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, cruises along beside the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon as it approaches its station stop in Glenwood Springs, CO on a beautiful November 9, 201... (more)

Amtrak 5 approaches Tunnel 18 on a late afternoon in early autumn.

On September 30, 2017, the mountain valley surrounding Tolland, Colorado, is painted in the colors of autumn as Amtrak’s California Zephyr heads westbound towards the Moffat Tunnel.

Amtrak 182 leads the California Zephyr west through Western Springs.