The newly renovated platforms at Denver Union Station host Amtrak 6, apparently on time (or at least close), while the station facade is bathed in Broncos Blue & Orange in honor of their 5th strai... (more)

Just after a springtime mountain snowstorm, Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr is about to take down the West Cliff signal at Pinecliffe, Colorado, on April 22, 2001.

I had grand plans this afternoon to catch the eastbound California Zephyr as it rounded the curve at Crescent amid snow-laden pines with a glorious sunset over the continental divide in the backgr... (more)

The sun briefly shines late in the afternoon of April 22, 2001, after a good spring snowstorm blankets the mountains around Pinecliffe, Colorado. Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr approaches ... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr curves out of Wash, Utah, and is entering Wellington Canyon on May 12, 2006. Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” from Helper waits at the east end of Wa... (more)

It's another beautiful morning in the Price River canyon as Amtrak train 6 is between Colton and Kyune. Locomotives 5 and 117 are the power for the Zephyr today.

An eastbound California Zephyr passes a hi-rail truck as it apporaches the depot in Glenwood Springs, CO on October 3, 2015.

Amtrak train No. 6, the California Zephyr, climbs eastbound up the western side of the Sierra Nevada Range on its way to the summit at Donner.

I finally shot my first picture at Floy. Floy is out in Utah's eastern desert on the former D&RGW main.

Entering rugged and colorful Little Gore Canyon east of Radium, Colorado, is Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr on August 4, 2014.

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr sits in Denver Union Station under the new trainshed on the pleasant Colorado night of December 6, 2014.

After emerging from a snowy Glenwood Canyon, the California picks up speed through Dotsero, only to be stopped shortly after this photo was taken due to a fallen boulder blocking the tracks.

California Zephyr number 6 works its way through Kyune, Utah on an early August morning.

Dawn in Spanish Fork Canyon

The Truckee River is silted up from a thunder storm the previous afternoon. Rain, lightning, thunder and even hail. Love that mountain weather. Amtrak train 6, the California Zephyr, rolls eastbou... (more)