Color Slide Set
Riding the California Zephyr (350-451)
Photographed by A.C. Kalmbach
Manufactured by Blackhawk Films, Davenport, Iowa
for Trains Magazine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Riding The California Zephyr
451-1 California Zephyr, shown here in Colorado Rockies, is joint Chicago-San Francisco train of CB&Q, D&RGW and WP	View: Larger Full-Size		451-2 Zephyr is scheduled to pass through scenic Feather River Canyon (here) and Rockies by daylight	View: Larger Full-Size		451-3 Vista dome view of train on curved steel trestle at Keddie, Calif.	View: Larger Full-Size
451-4 Keddie, where final gold spike of Western Pacific was driven, is now junction point of Northern California Extension	View: Larger Full-Size		451-5 Looking back along train during Keddie station stop	View: Larger Full-Size		451-6 Famed Williams Loop helps WP to climb Sierra with conservative but continuous one per cent grade	View: Larger Full-Size
451-7 The barren and sometimes flat country of Nevada is traversed while passengers sleep	View: Larger Full-Size		451-8 Morning finds eastbound Zephyr near Green River on D&RGW	View: Larger Full-Size		451-9 Centralized traffic control guards progress of Zephyr	View: Larger Full-Size
451-10 CTC paces non-stop meet between eastbound Zephyr and westbound freight	View: Larger Full-Size		451-11 First glimpse of perpetually snow covered Continental Divide	View: Larger Full-Size		451-12 Eastbound and westbound Zephyrs meet in Glenwood Canyon along upper Colorado River	View: Larger Full-Size
451-13 Meeting completed, westbound Zephyr shows its tail sign as it disappears	View: Larger Full-Size		451-14 Out of Canyon, Zephyr climbs toward Dotsero, junction of Dotsero cutoff. Dotsero got its name from "dot zero", surveyors' language for beginning point of survey	View: Larger Full-Size		451-15 Upper Colorado River Valley is a verdant green in June	View: Larger Full-Size
451-16 East end of Dotsero cutoff is at Orestod - Dotsero spelled backwards. Don't look there now for the steam locomotives. It is long since gone	View: Larger Full-Size		451-17 From Orestod to Denver, Zephyr runs on old Moffat Road - the once Denver and Salt Lake Railroad	View: Larger Full-Size		451-18 Structures along track are electric slide detector fence, they put signals at red at the slightest slide	View: Larger Full-Size
451-19 Westbound Zephyr disappears into cleft of Byers Canyon	View: Larger Full-Size		451-20 Tabernash was once base point for steam locomotive helpers over the Divide	View: Larger Full-Size		451-21 Helpers of a decade or more ago wait at Tabernash for eastbound push duty	View: Larger Full-Size
451-22 Rio Grande 2-8-8-2, No. 3608, at Tabernash in sunset days of steam	View: Larger Full-Size		451-23 From domes, passengers get spectacular view as eastbound Zephyr enters 6-mile-long Moffat Tunnel (second longest in the U.S.)	View: Larger Full-Size		451-24 Journey nears finish as eastbound Zephyr is on Burlington speedway through suburban Chicago	View: Larger Full-Size