Amtrak's Pioneer, train No. 26 glides east through Weber Canyon at Taggart.

A matched quartet of EMD F40PH units lead Amtrak's California Zephyr train 6 through Spanish Fork Canyon on New Year's Eve, 1990.

Amtrak’s No. 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, crests Thompson Hill just east of Thompson, Utah, on the morning of March 4, 2012.

Amtrak's Pioneer rambles east through Echo Canyon on June 20, 1992.

New General Electric P42DCs lead Amtrak's California Zephyr east along the old Rio Grande in Spanish Fork Canyon.

Running about 10 hours behind schedule, Amtrak's Desert Wind train #35 heads upgrade along UP's Lynndyl Subdivision approaching Erda. This perspective includes the Great Salt Lake, Stansbury Islan... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 departs the former D&RGW station at Helper, Utah. While the stable of locomotives includes Southern Pacific power, plenty of D&RGW SD40T-2s are on hand as a rem... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr glides east through Spanish Fork Canyon at the foot of 10,685 ft. Mt. Loafer.

On Christmas Eve 1989, Amtrak's Desert Wind train #35 takes a detour via UP's Provo Subdivision (now the Sharp Sub) west of Payson. A derailed LAAPZ stack train on the Lynndyl Sub at Warner (Tooel... (more)

A pleasant October morning in 1995 finds Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 climbing east on the former D&RGW at Gilluly. SP dispatcher 78 has lined the train through the Gilluly center siding, c... (more)

Photographed on the Summer Solstice of 1986, Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 leans into a super elevated curve on Rio Grande's westward main track at Mapleton, Utah. The grade separated and le... (more)

With a plethora of new GE passenger power on Amtrak's roster by the end of 1994, catching a pair of seasoned EMD F40PHs was something special. Here train #6 climbs east along the former D&RGW appr... (more)

The snowy flanks of 10,687 ft. Mt. Loafer frame Amtrak's California Zephyr running east through Spanish Fork Canyon on New Year's Eve, 1992.

On New Year's Eve 1990, Amtrak ran one of the longest California Zephyr trains I've witnessed. A matched quartet of EMD F40PHs lead the 17 car train east through Gilluly on the Denver & Rio Grande... (more)

American author/photographer/historian Lucius Beebe's 'Virginia City' Pullman observation car takes a tour of the Denver & Rio Grande Western coupled to Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 at Gill... (more)