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, Amtrakā€™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.

Amtrakā€™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)

Amtrakā€™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.

Amtrakā€™s westbound California Zephyr climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, after meeting an eastbound Union Pacific coal train on June 28, 2008. In a few minutes after circling Big 10 Curve, No. 5 will... (more)

Mile high streamliners. Amtrak's California Zephyr (far) and Winter Park Express ski train (close) sit in Denver's beautiful union station. Two RTD light rail trains flank the two sets of Superlin... (more)

Following the Colorado River westbound, Amtrakā€™s California Zephyr pierces Tunnel 40 in scenic Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on August 21, 2014.

Running westbound on Rio Grandeā€™s Moffat Tunnel route, a quartet of EMD F40PH locomotives pull a seventeen-car Amtrak California Zephyr westbound through Tunnel 38 in spectacular Gore Canyon nea... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr departs Chicago Union Station headed to the west coast. Though this train no longer operates the vista domes that made it famous, the scenery along the route is just as ... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, meets Amtrak No. 1006, the Winter Park Express ski train, in the siding at Fraser, Colorado, on March 13, 2020.