The ''California Zephyr'' is a

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operated by Amtrak between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at

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), via

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, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno. At , it is Amtrak's longest daily route, and second-longest overall after the '' Texas Eagle's'' triweekly continuation from San Antonio to Los Angeles, with travel time between the termini taking approximately 51 hours. Amtrak claims the route as one of its most scenic, with views of the upper Colorado River valley in the Rocky Mountains, and the

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. The modern train is the second iteration of a train named ''California Zephyr''; the original train was privately operated and ran on a different route through Nevada and California. During fiscal year 2019, the ''California Zephyr'' carried 410,844 passengers, a decrease of 1.8% over FY2018. The train had a total revenue of $51,950,998 in FY2016, an increase of 6.5% over FY2015.

History

Previous service

WP 805A with the California Zephyr on Altamont Pass, March 1970

Prior to the 1971 creation of Amtrak, three competing trains ran between Chicago and the East Bay, with bus connections to San Francisco: *The '' California Zephyr'' was operated by the

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(CB&Q), Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW), and

Western Pacific Railroad The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route dire ...

(WP). It operated between Chicago and

Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...

– along what is today called the Central Corridor and Feather River Route – via

, Denver, Salt Lake City and Oroville. Amid much fanfare and publicity, the California Zephyr was inaugurated on March 20, 1949. It was discontinued in March 1970 – the only of the three trains not still operating when Amtrak took over service. *The ''

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'' was operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road), Union Pacific Railroad (UP), and

Southern Pacific Railroad The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the ...

(SP). It operated between Chicago and Oakland on the Overland Route via Omaha, Cheyenne, Ogden and Reno. *The '' San Francisco Chief'' was operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) via the more southerly Southern Transcon. It operated between Chicago and

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via

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, Amarillo, and

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. Railpax (renamed Amtrak in late April 1971) originally intended to revive the ''California Zephyr'' as part its original route network, using the Burlington Northern (ex-CB&Q) east of Denver, the DRG&W between Denver and

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, and the WP west of Ogden. The ''California Zephyr'' route would serve more populated areas (including Denver and Salt Lake City) than the Overland Route, would run through rural communities that lacked good highway access, and could attract passengers to its scenic routes. However, since the WP had shed the last of its money-losing passenger service by terminating the ''California Zephyr,'' it was not eligible to participate in Amtrak's formation. On April 12, 1971, the WP refused to cooperate with Railpax, and the SP route between Ogden and Oakland was chosen instead. On April 26, the D&RGW elected not to join Amtrak. The contract specified that Amtrak could later increase service, and D&RGW feared that would crowd its single-track mainline that competed with the UP's double-track route. The D&RGW chose to operate the Denver–Ogden ''

Rio Grande Zephyr The ''Rio Grande Zephyr'' was a passenger train operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW or Rio Grande) between Denver, Colorado and Ogden, Utah from 1970 until 1983. In operation after the creation of publicly-funded Amtrak, th ...

.'' Amtrak scrambled to piece together a Denver–Cheyenne–Ogden routing on the UP.

Amtrak era

Between the spring of 1971 and the summer of 1972, passengers traveling between Chicago and Oakland would have to travel on two different trains: the '' Denver Zephyr'', which operated daily between Chicago and Denver, and the ''

'', which operated three times a week, between Denver and the San Francisco Bay Area. Eventually, however, after several false starts, Amtrak consolidated the two trains into one, dubbed the '' San Francisco Zephyr'', homage to both the ''California Zephyr'' and the ''San Francisco Chief, ''between Chicago and Oakland. The Rio Grande continued to operate the ''Rio Grande Zephyr'' between Denver and Ogden. In 1983, the D&RGW elected to join Amtrak, citing increasing losses in passenger operations. Amtrak re-routed the ''San Francisco Zephyr'' over the D&RGW's Moffat Subdivision between Denver and Salt Lake City, its original preference from 1971. The change was scheduled for April 25, but a

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, closed the line and delayed the change until July 16. With the change of route, Amtrak renamed the train as the ''California Zephyr''. The modern ''California Zephyr'' uses mostly the same route as the original east of Winnemucca, Nevada. The train uses the route of the former ''City of San Francisco'', along the Overland Route (

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), between

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, and Sacramento. Across central Nevada, the two rail lines have been combined to use

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. As such, the exact spot the train switches lines depends on the direction of travel. For most of the 1980s and 1990s, the ''California Zephyr'' operated in tandem with the Seattle-bound ''

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'' and Los Angeles-bound '' Desert Wind.'' Since 1980, the ''Pioneer'' and ''Desert Wind'' had exchanged through coaches with the ''San Francisco Zephyr'' at Ogden. The exchange point was moved to Salt Lake City when the latter train became the ''California Zephyr.'' This created a massive train of 16 Superliner cars running from Chicago to Utah, easily the longest train Amtrak had operated outside of the '' Auto Train''. Amtrak required at least four EMD F40PH locomotives to pull this behemoth over the steep grades of the Moffat subdivision. To ease the load, Amtrak began splitting the ''Pioneer'' from the ''Zephyr'' and ''Desert Wind'' at Denver in 1991, while the ''Desert Wind'' continued splitting from the ''Zephyr'' at Salt Lake City. The ''Pioneer'' and ''Desert Wind'' were both discontinued in 1997. The western terminus of the train was cut back to Emeryville station when Oakland Central station was closed on August 5, 1994. The ''California Zephyr'' was re-extended to Oakland with the opening of the Jack London Square station on May 12, 1995. However, this required a complicated reverse move along

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tracks to reach the wye at West Oakland. The train was cut back again to Emeryville on October 26, 1997. Service between Reno and Denver was suspended for about a month in April 2020, as part of a round of service reduction in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Frequency was reduced to tri-weekly in October 2020, but was restored to daily service on May 24, 2021, after additional Amtrak funding was included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. However, a resurgence of the virus caused by the Omicron variant and associated staffing and equipment shortages caused Amtrak to reduce the train's service to a five days a week Tuesday through Saturday schedule from January 19 to May 23, 2022.

Equipment

The ''California Zephyr'' uses equipment typical for Amtrak's long-distance trains in the Western United States: * 2 GE Genesis/ Siemens ALC-42 locomotives * Viewliner II baggage car * Superliner Transition Sleeper * 2-3 Superliner Sleepers * Superliner Diner * Superliner Sightseer Lounge * 2-3 Superliner Coaches

Route description

The west-bound train is Amtrak number 5 (number 6 eastbound). Upon leaving Chicago Union Station, the train travels along the Metra BNSF Railway Line, with an intermediate stop in Naperville, Illinois. After passing through

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, the train passes through the Illinois prairies, using the

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to cross the Mississippi River in

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, Iowa. After running through southern Iowa, the ''Zephyr'' reaches the Missouri River between

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and

, Nebraska. From Omaha, the train travels overnight through southern Nebraska and northeastern Colorado, making a morning arrival in Denver. At Denver, the ''Zephyr'' switches over from BNSF to Union Pacific tracks. Westbound, the train is routed over the Central Corridor for the trip through the Tunnel District. The line crosses the

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via the 6.2 mile-long Moffat Tunnel under James Peak. Leaving the Moffat Tunnel, the tracks then follow the Colorado River from

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, west of Grand Junction, which is also where the train enters Utah. Amtrak California Zephyr in Glenwood Springs

In Utah, the train follows the southern rim of the

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to their end near Helper. The ''Zephyr'' crosses the Wasatch Mountains, cresting at

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before descending into the

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to arrive at Salt Lake City. California Zephyr 5 (westbound)

From Salt Lake City to Emeryville, the ''Zephyr'' route loosely follows

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, traveling along the south shore of the

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and across the Bonneville Salt Flats towards Nevada. After crossing into Nevada at Wendover, Utah/

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, the route passes the Toano Range, via Silver Zone Pass, across the Goshute Valley, tunnels under the

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and then skirts the northern edge of the Ruby Mountains. The line first reaches the Humboldt River near

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, which it loosely follows until the river's end in the

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near Lovelock. Here, the tracks cross the center of the Forty Mile Desert; on the other side of this desert valley is the Truckee River, which provides the line's path to Reno and up the

in California. In California, the tracks round

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, crest the Sierra Nevada at Donner Pass, and descend a high ridge between the

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and Yuba Rivers, through

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. The line empties out into the

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, and then runs along the

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, with stops in Sacramento and Davis. It crosses the

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and has stops in Martinez and

. The trip ends in

, a suburb of

. From Emeryville the free

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shuttle connects passengers to the BART train or a

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provides connecting service to San Francisco's Embarcadero.

Rail line subdivisions

From east to west the current route of the Zephyr uses the following rail subdivisions: ;BNSF Railway * Chicago Subdivision Chicago Union Station to

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Aurora to Galesburg, Illinois * Ottumwa Subdivision Galesburg to Creston, Iowa * Creston Subdivision Creston to north-northwest of

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* Omaha Subdivision north-northwest of Plattsmouth to north-northeast of Ashland, Nebraska * Creston Subdivision north-northeast of Ashland to Lincoln, Nebraska * Hastings Subdivision Lincoln to

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McCook to Brush, Colorado *

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Brush to Denver ;Union Pacific Central Corridor * Greeley Subdivision to East Denver Belt Line in Denver just west of Broadway * Moffat Tunnel Subdivision Denver (just west of Broadway) to south-southeast of

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between

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and

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Glenwood Springs Subdivision The Central Corridor is a rail line operated by the Union Pacific Railroad from near Winnemucca, Nevada to Denver, Colorado in the western United States. The line was created after the merger with the Southern Pacific Transportation Company by co ...

Bond to Grand Junction, Colorado *

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Grand Junction to Helper, Utah *

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Helper to Salt Lake City *

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Salt Lake City to

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P-767west of Salt Lake City *

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P-911Kennecott Smokestack to

* Elko Subdivision Elko to Weso (switching point east of Winnemucca, Nevada) *

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Weso to

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Sparks to Roseville, California *

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Roseville to Emeryville

Cities served

* Illinois: Chicago, Naperville, Princeton, Galesburg * Iowa:

, Mount Pleasant, Ottumwa, Osceola, Creston * Nebraska:

, Lincoln, Hastings,

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, McCook * Colorado:

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, Denver, Fraser-Winter Park, Granby,

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, Grand Junction * Utah:

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, Helper, Provo, Salt Lake City * Nevada: Elko, Winnemucca, Reno * California:

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, Colfax,

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, Sacramento,

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, Martinez,

Ridership

References

Notes

External links

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