With the possible last train to ride over the CFU lead coming late 2023, I looked thru what I had from this dead end line. This was once the mainline of the Rock Island from West Liberty to Manly.... (more)
Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 glides eastward along D&RGW rails in Spanish Fork Canyon. 10,685 ft. Mt. Loafer (with remnants of a heavy winter snowpack) towers above the silver Superliner.
By late 1976, the former SP FP7's now in Amtrak service had dwindled to two units, #376 and #377.
Originally SP 6453 and 6454, they became Amtrak 116 and 117 and later #492 and #493. With the San... (more)
In a photo angle now impossible to obtain due to vegitative growth along Soldier Creek, Amtrak's California Zephyr hustles east amid Mt. Loafer on the climb to Soldier Summit.