Amtrak's California Zephyr rambles through the ghost town of Thistle, Utah on it's journey east to Chicago, Illinois.

These passengers seem to have been caught off-guard by climate change as several Amtrak on-board personnel go all out to assist them in loading their ski equipment onto the eastbound California Z... (more)

Amtrak #5 is about 12 minutes late (even though it arrived in Denver about 15 minutes early), seen here approaching Tunnel 1 on Colorado's Front Range on a glorious morning.

A very tardy California Zephyr train #6 rambles east along Castle Gate in Utah's Price River Canyon.

The eastbound Zephyr approaches the Floriston crossovers with fall color (what passes for it) at it's peak.

Trying to beat the clouds, 322 and 320 head up through the first section of Gilluly on the way up to Soldier Summit with eastbound #6 California Zephyr in August 1985.

The California Zephyr heads west through Burns on a very warm September afternoon.

With slightly less vegetation that today, a 150 minute late eastbound Californian Zephyr takes the diversionary route to the Thistle tunnels on the climb up to Soldier Summit behind 322 and 320 in... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr rolls through the east end of Glenwood Canyon along the Colorado River right on time, a not so common event on the UP.

SP Track One over Donner Pass, the original Central Pacific route, dramaticaly showed what the CP was up against when it built over Donner in 1866 with hand tools and black powder. But being on a... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr heads east along the Colorado River late in the day just outside State Bridge, CO. As the name states, that is what State Bridge is. State Road 131 bridge over the Color... (more)

eastbound Amtrak train #6 California Zephyr at Price UT

The westbound California Zephyr zips downgrade with its usual 8 car consist, along with a few extra in the form of Grand Luxe passenger cars. It was my understanding that these cars were tacked ... (more)

Westbound Amtrak No. 5, California Zephyr at west end of Gore Canyon Colorado on Moffat Sub.