The California Zephyr, the Colorado River, mountains and blue sky.

In the heat of the afternoon, Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr snakes through the Rocky Mountains near Dotsero, CO on June 22nd, 2018.

The Rio Grande Zephyr winds its way along the Colorado River at Dotsero, Colorado.

The Rio Grande Zephyr is approaching the main line at Dotsero as it nears the end of the Dotsero Cutoff. The westbound train is actually heading due east as it twists and turns along the Co... (more)

If there was a single train that was a poster child for the Rio Grande’s operational philosophy of short, fast trains, it was train 87. Seen here approaching the western end of the Dotsero Cutof... (more)

The Veterans and Phase 1 engines lead the westbound California Zephyr along the Colorado River at Dotsero, CO.

A freight heads east through Dotsero in the late afternoon sun

Union Pacific ES44AC No. 7348 leads two AC4400CW's, including a patched SP eastbound on the 2CWEKS9 15 with 79 coal loads along the Colorado River just outside of Dotsero, Colorado along the Dotse... (more)

Cruising downriver from Sweetwater, approaching Dotsero.

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.

A westbound DRGW train has just met an eastbound at Dotsero junction of the Moffit and Tennessee Pass routes east along the Colorado River

SP 8313 leads a Kansas City to Oakland auto train along the Golden Bair Sheep Ranch in scenic Glenwood Canyon on Sept. 26, 1996.

Amtrak No. 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, is seen through the clean dome windows of private car “Sierra Hotel” curving through Dotsero, Colorado, on February 3, 2002.

Westbound Denver - Salt Lake City manifest approaches Dotsero, CO where it will get on the Glenwood Springs Sub and head through Glenwood Canyon.

I drove up and down this road all day trying to catch a train to photograph. I gave up and headed towards Glenwood Springs when this trundled into view. Good job the sun came out to play as well