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Reply to "Just Found My Pictures of the California Zephyr..."

Just to footnote what Allan just said - the three railroad consortium ran the CZ from 1949 to 1970.  The eastern third was then CB&Q, Chicago to Denver, via Omaha and Arapahoe, NE (the small town in western NE where I went to high school - train didn't stop there...).  From Denver to Salt Lake City it was D&RGW via the Moffat tunnel, Grand Junction (CO) and the Price River canyon into SLC.  Western Pacific took the train from there to Oakland, via the Feather River Canyon through the Sierra Nevada (didn't go through Reno).

The current Amtrak version of the CZ follows (I think) essentially the same route from Chicago to SLC and then somewhere west of Wendover (UT) it picks up the old Southern Pacific route into Reno and crosses the Sierra via Donner Pass.  It enters the Bay Area via the bridge at Martinez, crossing the Sacramento River and then down the East Bay corridor into Oakland.  The old WP route between Sacramento and Oakland was via Altamont Pass and down Niles Canyon and into Oakland from the southeast.

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