Amtrak’s California Zephyr dashes its way west through a winter wonderland at Crescent while slowly climbing Colorado’s Front Range mountains on March 15, 2024.

On March 15, 2024, after 42 inches of snow fell on Crescent during a major Colorado Front Range storm, the view of snow-covered scenery from Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr would have been ... (more)

Amtrak P42 174, wearing the newest scheme, leads the California Zephyr West though Brookfield.

On March 20, 1949, the first run of the original California Zephyr departed Chicago, Illinois, bound for the west coast. A 75th anniversary run of the westbound California Zephyr, Amtrak’s train... (more)

Amtrak GE P42DC No. 82 has been repainted in the new Phase VII paint scheme and leads the westbound California Zephyr as it approaches Plainview, Colorado, on March 19, 2024.

Rural Grand County Rural beauty on the west side of the Great Divide in winter west of Grandby, CO

Amtrak train 5, the tri-weekly westbound San Francisco Zephyr, crosses the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains as it heads west from Chicago to Oakland … but, oddly, not to its namesake ... (more)

Slowest Permanent Speed Order California Zephyr is running a little late through Beyers Canyon into the 15 degree west of Sulphur the slowest permanent speed restriction between Denve... (more)

February Morning Light at Tunnel 1 An easy place to play the sun with a daily westbound.

Winter Wonderland 20” of new snow overnight bend the branches into submission for a frame up of the days westbound California Zephyr. Snow shoes would have helped.

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr pops out of the west portal of Moffat Tunnel at Winter Park, Colorado, on November 14, 2021.

On Time California Zephyr rolls west through Crescent.

Amtrak’s California Zephyr passes the site of Tunnel 41, removed many years ago by Rio Grande, in Little Gore Canyon approaching Radium, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 19, 2023.

Following the Colorado River is Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr in Byers Canyon west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on September 18, 2023.

Flying Above the Clouds by Rail This very well may be the most difficult and rare of weather events to capture along the Flatiron Range. Meteorology calls it an Inversion and it can b... (more)