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...Zephyr...
...while, the Zephyr will continue to run from Chicago to Denver. But there its through service will be interrupted by a 22-hour layover. The rest of the route West will be changed...
Happier Man. The train meets the Colorado River and follows it for 238 miles, wending through myriad multihued gorges. At twilight the Cal Zephyr descends into a red desert and then goes highballing across the salt flats of Utah. "I take this train every chance I get," says George Vogel, 45, a budget analyst. "It's my form of relaxation, a chance to get back to myself. I don't have to worry about telephone calls, cutting the grass or crying kids. And when I get home, I'm a happier...
Next morning, over steak and eggs and fresh copies of the Rocky Mountain News, passengers who were strangers a few hundred miles back are now chummily addressing one another by first names. The Cal Zephyr begins its 118-mile run through California's ruggedly beautiful Feather River Canyon. Rushing by waterfalls, thick stands of ponderosa pines and beds of bright orange poppies, the train passes Rich Bar and Oroville, towns that boomed into use in the days of the great gold rush...
...last leg of the 50-hour journey runs a straight course toward San Francisco along the rice fields, olive groves and vineyards of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valley. Gradually slowing, the Cal Zephyr chugs under an increasing number of highway bridges and then, at the outskirts of the metropolis, finally fades into the smog of civilization...