Here's a selection of my photos of Amtrak in action. Also see
these pages for more:
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 In its first year of
operation over the Rio Grande, Train No. 5, the westbound California
Zephyr (including run-through cars for the Pioneer and Desert Wind) is looping
through the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon. [This is the first image I took with
my 35mm Minolta camera.] 3/24/1984 |
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Train No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr (including run-through cars
for the Pioneer and Desert Wind), has just exited the Moffat Tunnel on March 14,
1993. Today's train was running several hours late, and had a
Cotton
Belt freight unit on the point assisting the usual pair of F40PH's. |
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Train No. 5
makes its way west on the day after Christmas 1998. Here it passed through the
cut just east of Rocky on the Moffat line. |
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Train No. 6 is flying eastward near Rifle, CO on March 23, 2002. This
is one of the few areas in western Colorado that Amtrak can run all-out.
It has
the usual eight Superliner cars behind a trio of P42 locomotives, plus a string
of material-handling cars and a RoadRailer trailer on the tail end. |
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Train No. 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, takes on fuel at Albuquerque on
2/07/2010, just prior to its station stop. |
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Train No. 4 is
whipping through Perea, NM (east of Gallup) on 9/11/2010. Two freights have been
diverted nose-to-nose on the opposite iron to allow the Chief to run past
without delay. |
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Train No. 4 is flying
through Prewitt, New Mexico on the morning of February 21, 2011. On this
President's Day, Mt. Taylor is looming directly ahead (as is a westbound stack
train waiting for the Chief's passage). |
