Kids are back in school. Football is rolling into stadiums. The summer heat is fading into a warm autumn. Pretty soon, we will see the firs...

It may be just a few hours later and we find ourselves in nearly the exact same location as Tuesday's Photo of the Day . The snow is cer...

The ritual of boarding a train from small town America is almost as old as the nation itself. In Fraser, Colorado, passengers wait in the sh...

Photo of the Day: Peter Lewis Ruby Canyon is one of those hidden Colorado jewels that few people get the chance to see, unless you'r...

Photo of the Day: Peter Lewis Peter Lewis' recent trip along the Moffat line in August yielded several good photos . Each worked wel...

Amtrak is going to visit Grand Junction this Saturday, October 10th from 10 AM to 4 PM MDT. Actually, Amtrak visits there every day in the...

Having ridden the Rio Grande Zephyr only once from Denver to Glenwood Springs, the weekend of its demise, I am no expert on the experience...

Drew Jacksich makes his debut here with Photo of the Day. Mr. Jacksich gets around if a quick tour of his flickr site is any indication. Hi...

They say film is dead. Tell that to Chris May. A loaned camera, a roll of Tri-X film (Kodak black and white) and some time at Union Station ...

Amtrak killed the Ski Train in a blatant fratricide. So why is it still the subject of a Photo of the Day award, especially in a place its ...

There have been widespread road closures due to flooding , including I-25 in both directions from Denver to the Wyoming state line . In my e...

Photo: Mike Danneman Popping in and out of sunlight, the California Zephyr makes it's way through Rocky in the early evening along ...

Sometimes, it just takes an attentive eye to catch the unusual or interesting in a photo. Blogger-photographer Mikoyan captured such a deta...

As the mercury slowly climbs out of winter and into our spring (hopefully), cabin fever has again sprung many images and ideas formerly lock...

Today's Photo of the Day is awarded to James Griffin of www.actionroad.net . Few images seem to strike me as the many shots passengers ...

Last Friday marked the 63rd anniversary of the start of the California Zephyr , the fabled stainless steel streamliner operated by the Chica...

A Washington DC writer travels the Capitol Limited and California Zephyr to Nevada and San Francisco. Her trip was, in my own experience, a...

In honor of those who will be travelling this week, I thought I'd see if I could turn up a Photo of the Day or two on the subject of tra...

The characteristic curve of the window should be a tip to the railroad-minded about the location of the photographer when they snapped this ...

Since the accident last week , Amtrak hasn't been running the California Zephyr , owing both to the accident and damage from the floods ...