Memorable Moments: last updated October 2023, work in progress 0:00:00 Coming Up 0:00:22 Explanation 0:01:00 BART Orange Line to Richmond 0:01:21 Fire next to warehouse 0:01:37 View of San Francisco Skyline 0:01:50 Getting off BART at Richmond 0:02:17 Train #6, the California Zephyr to Chicago, arrives 0:03:13 Boarding the train 0:04:06 San Pablo Bay 0:04:31 I-80 Carquinez Strait Bridges 0:04:47 C&H Sugar Factory 0:05:22 Martinez, CA (stop) 0:05:36 "The Lounge Car is Open and Serving" 0:05:44 Benicia-Martinez Bridge 0:06:18 Junction with former Cal-P line 0:06:22 Fairfield, CA 0:06:36 Fairfield-Vacaville 0:06:56 Dixon, CA 0:07:02 Entering Yolo County, leaving the Bay Area 0:07:13 Davis, CA (stop) 0:07:31 Amtrak Bedroom Tour (Superliner I) 0:08:36 West Sacramento, CA 0:08:50 Crossing the Sacramento River 0:09:18 Sacramento Valley Station (stop) 0:09:53 American River 0:10:05 Going to Lunch in the Dining Car 0:10:28 Breakfast/Lunch Menu 0:10:39 Lunch in the Dining Car 0:11:36 Auburn, CA 0:12:15 Damaged Autorack Railcars near Colfax 0:12:30 Colfax, CA (stop) 0:13:34 Moving my GoPro through the train 0:14:50 View of the North Fork American River Gorge 0:15:37 Casa Loma 0:15:46 UP Track Maintenance Vehicles 0:16:25 Emigrant Gap 0:17:41 Short Tunnel 0:19:10 Freight Interference 0:20:02 Donner Pass 0:21:45 Donner Lake 0:23:14 Truckee, CA (stop) 0:23:45 Truckee River 0:24:30 Welcome to Nevada 0:25:05 Reno, NV (stop) 0:25:29 Big City Problems (Biggest Little City) 0:27:06 Going to Dinner 0:28:24 Dinner Arrives: Amtrak Steak (post-pandemic) 0:29:21 Dessert Arrives in the Desert 0:29:56 Winnemucca, NV (stop) 0:31:07 Wobbly Laptop 0:31:34 Train Tour 0:32:31 George M. Pullman Car 0:33:06 *Casual Post-Meal Diner Sounds* 0:34:02 Coach Section Tour 0:34:33 "Dad? I'm right here!" Game of hide-and-seek not over (yet) 0:35:02 Coach Restroom Tour 0:35:27 Elko, NV (stop) 0:35:42 Shower Tour 0:36:36 TheNewFatCat has trouble with the shower 0:37:10 Bed made for the night 0:37:21 DAY 2 0:37:31 Salt Lake City, UT (stop) 0:38:52 Soldier Summit 0:40:00 Helper, UT (stop) 0:40:28 Price, UT 0:42:03 Green River, UT (stop) 0:43:02 Moab Junction 0:42:10 "You know what you guys are havin' this mornin'?" "Ummm..." 0:44:09 Colorado River 0:44:26 Utah-Colorado Border 0:44:30 "You're an adult. You make a mess, you clean it up after yourself." 0:45:10 Back of the Train 0:45:53 Amtrak Coach Seat Review 0:47:06 UP Maintenance Delay (15mph speed restriction) 0:48:29 Grand Junction, CO (stop) 0:49:54 Rifle, CO (lunch is served) 0:50:40 Approaching Glenwood Springs 0:51:47 "Legend says that the Teddy Bear was invented here" 0:52:02 Glenwood Springs, CO (stop) 0:52:39 Walk from platform to roomette 0:53:11 Coming out of tunnel 0:53:29 Glenwood Canyon 0:54:12 Dam in Glenwood Canyon 0:54:38 I-70 in Glenwood Canyon 0:55:15 Train #5, the westbound Zephyr, arrives 0:55:38 Journey of the Colorado River - leaving the I-70 corridor 0:56:31 Observation Car (Sightseer Lounge) 0:57:50 Bond, CO 0:58:21 Moon River 0:59:13 Gore Canyon 0:59:29 Canyon opens up to valley (from the intro) 0:59:50 Snowbank by the riverbank 1:00:05 Kremmling, CO 1:00:41 Windy Gap Reservoir, last view of the Colorado River 1:00:49 Granby, CO (stop) 1:01:38 Fraser-Winter Park, CO (stop) 1:02:05 "Snow's dirty" 1:02:22 (throws snowball) "Snowball Fight!" 1:02:51 Winter Park Ski Resort 1:03:11 Moffat Tunnel: Continental Divide 1:03:32 Atlantic Side 1:03:45 "Hello!" Back in the diner for dinner 1:03:58 Can't drink Coca-Cola in Colorado (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Znl0cgqzUn4.html) 1:04:51 Appetizer is served: Lobster Crab Cake 1:05:04 Gross Dam 1:05:10 Dinner is served: Salmon over a mile high 1:05:20 Our first view of the Great Plains 1:05:48 "Most Spectacular View" from a train in the US 1:06:26 View of Denver from ahigh 1:07:37 Big Ten Curve 1:07:59 Hopper Cars on the Big Ten Curve 1:08:11 Carrot Cake "An old family recipe" made with expertise from the ground up, frosted by our professional culinary team 1:08:21 Cold War Horse 1:08:51 RTD Commuter Rail Network 1:09:31 "We just went by a couple of very attractive salvage yards" - Conductor Brad 1:11:03 Reversing the train into Denver Union Station 1:12:06 Arriving at Denver Union Station (stop) 1:12:32 In front of Denver Union Station 1:12:45 Flagpole featured in Jet Lag: The Game Season 2 1:12:52 UNION STATION: TRAVEL by TRAIN 1:13:09 Moving Flowers into the station, with a helping hand 1:13:17 Inside Denver Union Station 1:13:32 "That way," avoiding last time's elevator experience 1:14:13 Window Cleaning 1:14:16 "We'll be on the move in just a few minutes" Departing Denver Union Station for Chicago 1:16:40 Otis, CO
You can disable the flashing red light on your gopro in the settings menu. Just a tip for filming through glass. Good video, would love to do that trip someday.
Your video wasn't quite accurate. First, meals on Amtrak trains for Sleeping car passengers are not complimentary. They are included in the price of the ticket. Coach passengers have to pay for each meal. Second, the factory you identified at the beginning belong to the C & H sugar company and has been an iconic land mark for decades. Third, you missed identifying the Sacramento River just before pulling into the states capitol of Sacramento.Fourth, it was annoying constantly speeding the film up. Film q bit. Then go to something else. Fifth, your choice of music was not the best. But that's subjective. Lastly, you failed to identify what are the problems with Reno as a big city. Also, you missed the opportunity to give a background on the Reno station, that it for decades was located at street level. But because that created traffic issues a trench was dug putting the station below street level. One last thing . The Zephyr never ran along the Feather river route as Amtrak, only as the Western Pacific. WP would not not allow Amtrak to use the name California Zephyr because they did not believe Amtrak held the same quality standard as them. So the train was the San Francisco Zephyr until Amtrak brought an acceptable level of quality up. Same with the Santa Fe and their Super Chief train. I couldn't get through the rest of your video because of some of the things I pointed out earlier.
Enjoyed watching your journey. Thanks. How did worrisome traveller cope with that train horn blarring soo often. I hope to do same trip next year, if my hearing can survive it.
Air information about Amtrak on western pacific is incorrect western pacific what is the railroad that started the California zephyr and the railroad was bought by union pacific and they wanted to run or fruit on the for the river so they transferred it over to Truckee. Everybody wanted it in the feather river, but even in Pacific said no.
TL:DR BART goes directly to Richmond. We decided to take BART from Milpitas so we wouldn't have to catch the 6:18am Capitol Corridor from San Jose to Emeryville. Catching BART at 7am gave us a 40 minute transfer in Richmond, while taking the Capitol Corridor would make us wait well over an hour in Emeryville.
