At dusk, the eastbound San Francisco Zehpyr departs from Fort Morgan, bound for Chicago, with three ex-CB&Q diesels, but a rainbow consist, including three ex-GN Sky Blues immediately behind the baggage car. Amtrak was still trying to replicate the dome service of the California Zephyr ... however, this train's dome view features the high plains of Wyoming, rather than the Rocky Mountains, as Rio Grande continued providing its own Denver-Salt Lake City service via the Rio Grande Zephyr.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
