On a beautiful Spring morning, The California Zephyr, No. 6, charges westbound up the east slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Summit at Norden,
So, here I am sitting on a gray shale hill, all by myself before dawn, out in very rural eastern Utah. Cattle are bawling and a coyote runs across a field near me. I am waiting for Amtrak #6, the ... (more)