Denver & Rio Grande Zephyr Colorado USA 22nd October 1979
The beautiful gold and silver of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway on the locomotives and baggage car contrasts with the light covering of snow on the approach to Glenwood Canyon in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. The conductor allowed me to take this view from the open door of our passenger train travelling from Denver to Salt Lake City (where we changed in the middle of the night to an Amtrak train to San Francisco). The lead locomotive is F9 diesel 5771.
This was the last private long distance passenger train in the USA but it has long since been taken over by Amtrak.
We were moving homes via San Francisco & Australia after a 2 year assignment in New Orleans to live in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Malik Raoulda said:
Bonne et agréable journée paisible.
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GrahamH said:
Totally different countryside to travel through.
Annemarie said:
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GrahamH said:
Totally different countryside to travel through. A last blast of cold for some years also, I guess.
Loose_Grip/Pete replied to GrahamH:
Quite right Graham, not many cold blasts in Sumatra except those from the a/c...
William Sutherland said:
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