Riding the California Zephyr

Take a ride from Salt Lake City to Grand Junction on the California Zephyr. Then look back at the history from the Exposition Flyer to the California Zephyr and the Rio Grande Zephyr. Beautiful scenes of the Ruby Canyon and Book Cliffs.
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After the great flood of 1983 the Rio Grande Zephyr was retired and Amtrak took over the famous train. Our friend Mick Neiderhauser became engineer of the new version of the historic train. Today Mike still makes the trip twice a week, and another friend, Adam Pinales is conducted. Adam showed us around the train, and the clever Apple iPhones used to track the trains system wide as the amazing red rocks of Utah and Colorado speed past out window
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The California Zephyr is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois, and Emeryville, California (originally Oakland), via Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. At 2,438 miles (3,924 km) it is Amtrak's longest route after the Texas Eagle. Amtrak claims the route as one of its most scenic, with views of the upper Colorado River valley in the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada.

Before Amtrak, the California Zephyr (the CZ, or "Silver Lady") was a passenger train operated by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q), Denver & Rio Grande Western (D&RGW) and Western Pacific railroads, all which dubbed it "the most talked about train in America" on March 19, 1949, with the first departure the following day. It was scheduled to pass through the most spectacular scenery on its route in the daylight. The original train ceased operation in 1970, though the D&RGW continued to operate its own passenger service, the Rio Grande Zephyr, between Salt Lake City and Denver using the original equipment until 1983. Since 1983 the California Zephyr name has been applied to the Amtrak service, which operates daily and is a hybrid of the route of the original Zephyr and its former rival, the City of San Francisco.

During fiscal year 2012, the California Zephyr carried more than 376,000 passengers, an increase of 5.9% on 2011. The train had a total revenue of $47,605,728 in 2012, a 6.4% increase on 2011

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Please watch: "The Trains of Santa Cruz California"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv0S8Sa18mY
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