Operation Lifesaver Amtrak 6 with the Rio Grande looking paint, always a treat I like to get.

Operation Lifesaver Amtrak 6 with the Rio Grande looking paint, always a treat I like to get.

Stainless Glint at Leyden Sunset owns the moment at Leyden with the California Zephyr flying the mile over the high fill at Leyden in Arvada.

Low light at Coal Creek Sunset comes early at the foot hills in Coal Creek. Soft evening glow fills the valley. Denver skyline is in the background.

Amtrak #6 drifts down the 1.1% grade at 'Cedar'

Heading east 9 hours 4 minutes behind schedule, Amtrak 6, the California Zephyr heading from Emeryville Ca to Chicago IL, approaches McCook NE on a blistering hot morning. Thirty-one-year-... (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)

Wild Flowers A vivid new paint scheme adorns Amtrak’s CZ 5/6 fleet.

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)

Amtrak P42DC's #138 & #82 brings Amtrak #6 'The California Zephyr' east through the Utah desert at 'Floy'.

Amtrak #6 has just crossed into Colorado from Utah at the mouth of Ruby Canyon

Amtrak’s 50th anniversary locomotive painted in Heritage I colors, GE P42DC, No. 161, leads the eastbound California Zephyr into the horseshoe curve at Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Ei... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr has just exited Tunnel 1 at aptly-named Plainview, Colorado, late in the afternoon of March 22, 2024. Leading the train is recently-repainted GE P42DC No. 82... (more)

Amtrak train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, passes through 463-foot Tunnel 42 as it follows the Colorado River just east of Radium, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 19, 2023.

An eastbound California Zephyr 6 train collided with a tanker truck carrying 10,000 gallons of milk and derailed in Weld County on Monday night, representatives of Amtrak and the Colorado State Pa... (more)