Joe Raedle, Getty Images A passenger looks at the Amtrak system map while waiting at Union ... exit from Amtrak’s California Zephyr at a train station during its daily 2,438-mile trip to ...

Seats in the coach car of the newly renovated Pioneer Zephyr. The front of the Pioneer Zephyr train at the Museum of Science and Industry. The mail carin the newly renovated Pioneer Zephyr.

"Amtrak is nothing like the historic Zephyr," said Cathy von Ibsch, 63, who worked as a Zephyrette when the private service came to an end in 1970. "It (Amtrak) didn't have the same class or same feel ...

With a reputation for being one of the most beautiful train routes in North America, Amtrak’s California Zephyr travels daily between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area on a 51-hour ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. (AP) – The journey east on Amtrak’s California Zephyr train is as good as the destination. Riding the rails from the San Francisco Bay area to Reno, Nev., offers beautiful ...

I’ll bet Ralph Waldo Emerson was on a train when he wrote: “Life is a journey, not a destination.” Riding the rails lulls passengers back to an era when travel time was spent taking in new ...

Nobody understands the magic of Amtrak's California Zephyr train quite like Brad Swartzwelter, better known to passengers as Conductor Brad. During Swartzwelter's 30-year career as a conductor ...

Louis much faster than putting them in a mailbox." The Mark Twain Zephyr has a long and storied history. How it ended up on a rail siding along State Highway 53 as tourists pulling boats and ...