America’s sweetheart streamliner, the D&RGW’s Rio Grande Zephyr Train 17 glides along the Colorado River near Dell on May 16, 1970 just two weeks after the advent of Amtrak when D&RGW elected not to join. The former D&RGW and today’s Amtrak California Zephyr Trains 5 and 6 follow the Colorado River for 238 miles, the longest stretch any railroad follows the same river in the USA.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
