Bye!

Three sisters elephant style take CZ passengers for a fast ride on the Chicago/Aurora raceway.

After idling in Union Station, the first time the engineer notched up all the built-up soot in the cylinders was blown out as these three elephant-style E7 ladies demonstrated. Photo taken from Ro... (more)

Having stopped at Portola to change both the Amtrak crew and the UP pilot, detouring #6 is headed East out of Portola along the Feather River. Following the route of the original CZ, this train wi... (more)

The California Zephyr flies along East of Cameron, IL

The Eastbound California Zephyr has emerged from the tunnel at Keddie and out onto Spanish Fork Trestle. FP7 805A is leading with an F3B and F3A in the lash-up. A steam generator car and a Great ... (more)

While on a business trip my father Robert Hedlund took this photo as he waited the trains arrival. Power WP FP7 804-D & two F3Bs.

California Zephyr´s Silver Crescent rear lounge. Preserved at Gold Coast museum.

WP 804A has arrived in Salt Lake with the next to last Eastbound CZ and turned it over to Rio Grande 5764 which will take it to Denver.

Still earning their keep on the Western Pacific's portion of the California Zephyr, 803A and two F3B units are Eastbound just East of the townsite of Altamont. The track below is the now removed S... (more)

The last WP California Zephyr is making its stop at Portola where an F3B and 3 coaches (which had come up on the last Eastbound the day before) are added to the consist for the last trip into Oakl... (more)

Pulling away from the Fremont Depot and ready to enter Niles Canyon on its way East.

On March 22, 1970, Western Pacific's California Zephyr stopped at Oroville, CA for the last time. While the engines were watered, both passengers (I was one) and onlookers got one last look at the... (more)

Amtrak #6, the Eastbound California Zephyr approaching Pinole as it runs along San Pablo Bay. The #289 was, at one time, equipped with SP style icicle breakers but, by 1987, they had been removed.

With about 27 miles to go to reach Reno, the Zephyr has just about finished its over night crossing of Utah and Nevada as it follows the Truckee River Westward