(May 18, 2019 - Glenwood Canyon to Denver, CO) Via the Royal Gorge, transiting under the Continental Divide via the Moffat Tunnel and finally weaving through the Tunnel District, this was an extraordinary way to end a day filled with stunning sights and vista's. Granby, CO Granby, CO Wolcott, CO Wolcott, CO Kremmling, CO Entering … Continue reading The Zephyr – Part IV →

(May 18, 2019 - UT/CO Border to Glenwood Canyon) Part III was my main focus for filming with the GoPro and iPod so photos are fewer in this stretch. The incredible design of the I70 highway, using multi levels to compress the space used is dramatic in itself. Note also that along the entire highway … Continue reading The Zephyr – Part III →

(May 18, 2019 - Provo, UT to UT/CO Border) From the best of my records and timestamps on the photo's, here are many of the photo locations over this and the next post. The most amazing aspect of the next 3 posts is that ALL the photo's were taken in ONE DAY! First Light: Rime … Continue reading The Zephyr – Part II →

(May 17, 2019 - Emeryville, CA to Elko, UT)The California Zephyr runs between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville), east-bound via Reno, Salt Lake City, Denver and Omaha. At 2,438 miles, it is Amtrak's second longest route after the Texas Eagle branch to Los Angeles, with travel time between the termini taking … Continue reading The Zephyr – Part I →

Pictorial - Glacier National Park and the Columbia River Gorge The following photo's are from the last 3rd of the Empire Builder and the finest 2 features: Glacier National Park in the top NW corner of Montana and the Columbia River Gorge on a dismal day and from the "wrong side" of the train... but … Continue reading The Builder →

About The Empire Builder(CHI Train #7 west-bound to #27 west-bound from Spokane, WA to Portland, OR (PDX) Amtrak’s Empire Builder (#7 West) operates daily between Chicago and – via two sections west of Spokane – Seattle and Portland (Train #27 West). Introduced in 1929, it was the flagship passenger train of the Great Northern Railway … Continue reading The Empire →

Pictorial from Flagstaff, AZ to La Junta, CO [May 11, 2019] - The best day yet. And you want pictures? I got pictures... After a packed trip from LA, we started to offload plenty of people at Flagstaff and Albuquerque with few adding on. I made zero attempt to access the outside world to write … Continue reading The Chief →

LAX to CHI / May 10-12, 2019 (Friday, May 10, 2019)I arrived into LAX pre-dawn and my next segment isn't until this evening at 6:00pm. Late last night we stopped at Tucson and, even surprising to the conductors, there were well over 100 people in line. Most were UA college kids having just finished finals … Continue reading The LALALayover →

San Antonio to LAXMay 9, 10, 2019 The second half of the Texas Eagle segment, SAS > LAX. [Photo album below](6:00pm / May 9)The last miles of the Texas Eagle (#21) before we rolled into San Antonio last night were ripe with freight and equipment delays. Arrival time was to be 9:55pm but, all told, … Continue reading The Eagle – Part II →

(May 7th - 522pm, just outside Pontiac, IL)So I was all ensconced in slumber at midnight last when the Lake Shore Limited stopped in Buffalo and about 14 Amish parents and kids all piled on to my car. They took a while to settle down but finally around 300am I guess I fell back to … Continue reading The Eagle – Part I →