Amtrak 6 snakes east through the nearly continuous curves of Byers Canyon.
UP 8444 stands at the Cheyenne passenger station coupled ahead of Amtrak E8 330 on the headend of #6. In the early days of Amtrak, UP would ferry the big locomotive to and from Denver on the head... (more)
Back in the 1980's, it seemed the EMD F40PH locomotive would be around forever. The combined California Zephyr-Desert Wind-Pioneer train climbs Rio Grande's 2% grade through Detour on the way east... (more)
Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr meets a UP coal train at East Midvale, Utah. The train was running along frosty ties about four hours behind schedule.
The crew is changed on the eastbound California Zephyr, just in from a detour through Wyoming.
Amtrak's California Zephyr is running ahead of schedule on its arrival at Martinez, California behind AMD-103/P42-9 140 on June 27.
Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr had GP40X 9003. Amtrak F40PH 234 on Pioneer. DRGW was still operating the Rio Grande Zephyr in Colorado to SLC, but only for a few more days.
UP assigned GP40X units to Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr between Ogden, UT, and Denver, CO, across Wyoming. A few days later Amtrak would reroute the train through Colorado renaming it the Califor... (more)
The first P42 lost power. UP helped power the train but 8003 died too leaving 5802 to do all the work. (Second P42 was HEP)
Amtrak 6 is just streaks of colored lights as it charges by Crest, CO. Canon EOS D60, Canon EF 28mm f/2.8, ISO 200, 181 seconds at f/4.5. Lighting provided by Amtrak and the Full Moon, Inc.
Northbound Tampa/St. Pete section of Amtrak 6, the Floridian. Kodachrome II, Yashica TL