Amtrak engine #76 (P42DC) runs through Leyden, Colorado.

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr races across Barr Lake during sunset after performing its station work and a crew change at Denver Union Station. AMTK 160, the Phase III "Pepsi Can"... (more)

What a Great Way To Start the Day!

While hanging around Martinez, where my railfanning obsession began with my older brother watching Southern Pacific Dayli... (more)

A pair of specially painted Amtrak engines, including a Heritage VII painted P42DC and Amtrak #160, painted in the "Pepsi" paint scheme, lead the California Zephyr through South Draw bet... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr passes by a Union Pacific Oil train that is stopped on the Plain siding on Union Pacific's Moffatt Tunnel subdivision. The Zephyr is headed eastbound and in a few minute... (more)

The California Zephyr 6 train runs through Plainview, Colorado and heads towards Tunnel #1 and Coal Creek Canyon on its way to Denver.

Amtrak #5 tears past the west end of 'Utahline' crossing into Utah from Colorado at the mouth of Ruby Canyon.

Big Game in Colorado. Amtrak P42DC no. 187, the "Big Game Train," is seen leading train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, through Palisade, CO en-route to Emeryville,... (more)

Amtrak engine #78 (P42DC) races the snow clouds as it leads the Winter Park Express through the signal bridge in the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

The westbound California Zephyr 5 train runs through a crossing at West Pinecliffe, Colorado.

Here we get a good look of the new Phase VII paint scheme that has started to grace the P42DC's as the California Zephyr 6 train runs past the BNSF's intermodal facility in Denver, Colorado.

The California Zephyr runs through Coal Creek Canyon as it heads into the Moffat Tunnel District and the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

In a dispatching move that didn't quite make sense, the California Zephyr 5 train meets the California Zephyr 6 train, but since a UP oil train occupied the siding at Rocky, Colorado, the 5 train ... (more)

Amtrak heritage unit #161 leads the California Zephyr 6 train through Winter Park Ski Resort

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)