At the Emeryville, CA station waiting for the California Zephyr to arrive.
The room I had on the train.
Obviously I'm a big fan of sour patch kids
The downstairs hallway of where bedrooms and bathrooms are located
The shower. It's just like any shower but at 80mph and rocking requires more concentration
The dining car with surprisingly good food. Food is included when you have a room, so I was never hungry.
The lounge car
The Carquinez Bridge in California
Our first stop was in Reno, NV
My room is that window on the bottom right. The fancy rooms were upstairs.
Nevada
I had dinner the first night with these women. They were on their way home to Georgia from a women's bowling tournament in Reno.
Waking up somewhere in Utah
The room across from mine
Good coffee
Utah
Cisco, Utah -- a ghost town http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco,_Utah
Entering Ruby Canyon
The Colorado River
Ruby Canyon
Stopped in Grand Junction, Colorado
The old Grand Junction train station
The new Grand Junction train station
Grand Junction, Colorado
A (replica?) 1935 date nail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenail)
This is the upstairs hallway in the sleeping car. These rooms have showers and bathrooms in them.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
If you look closely you can see a guy in red waving to us.
Best apple pie ever.
Ridiculous rapids
Gore Canyon -- only accessible via train and by expert kayakers. The ridge in the center of the photo was a path through the canyon and route to the west coast a long time ago.
Leaving the canyon, this is what we saw.
Entering another canyon
Approaching two tunnels
Some serious rapids -- only pros make it out alive
Stopped in Granby, Colorado
Going through Moffat Tunnel under the continental divide -- a 6 mile tunnel. I tried to take a photo of the tunnel wall to see what was out there... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffat_Tunnel
We exited the tunnel and got a view of the great plains
Denver in the distance
Prairie dogs in Denver
Waking up in Iowa
Apparently I slept through Omaha
Omaha World-Herald
Arriving in Chicago, the end of the line of the California Zephyr.
Changed trains in Chicago. Now going to Charlottesville, VA.
The snack/lounge car
West Virginia
That's part of Alderson Federal Prison Camp (aka Camp Cupcake) where Martha Stewart did some hard time
In Charlottesville, VA waiting from my next train - the last one
The Charlottesville, VA train station
Me sitting outside the station
