I was pushed out of Colorado when it was invaded by Californians. Colorado is now crowded, expensive and full of road rage. I dread going back to visit family. It's just not the same anymore.

That is cool.

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I was a passenger (about) 60 years ago. I loved every minute.

Such a exciting way to see America in all its glory.

yeah, but, now? holy....

@@muddabber9925 It still runs. Usually an 8 passenger car train. John C Dvorak reports on it Sundays and Thursdays at 9:15 in the morning Pacific time, on the No Agenda Show with Adam Curry. 8 cars is a stable economy, under 8 means economic contraction and over 8 is indicative of US economic growth. Or maybe the wealthy are blowing their money because they know it'll be worthless soon... noagendashow.net

Same

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@@PeriscopeFilm yes, I did sub! I meant in the 50's it was a great time to be in America, not now!

if you were white.

@@johnthemachine There's a race baiter in EVERY video.. sad...

@@dogie1070 I have absolutely no idea what you are saying. "Gang bangers invite discrimination"? "Only a bully can be so mean to others who mean no harm"? Your comments have zero to do with what Cynthia said.

@@shimshonbendan8730 you're right. I will remove the post.

Thanks Cindy God!

Like a Pullman porter? I've read about that. Very good job if you could get it. With no crazy experience or education requirements you could make a good living

Portering was a relatively good job for a Black man at the time but it did not become a decent job until after the rail porters unionized in 1945. Before then their pay was almost non-existant and they earned money through tips. Promotion above the job of porter was out of the question. They were given no rest time on shift, the shits were often 48 hours, or more. Uniforms they paid for themselves as well as any missing linen or towels. They had to suffer indignity and humiliation without complaint and could be fired for simply speaking out of turn, or almost any reason. That said, yes, the Railway Porters formed the basis of the Black middle class. Considering what those old timers had to deal with they must have been class acts themselves.

John Collins how much is it cost ?

@@romansroad2007 Probably more than it does now. I've heard that they're gonna try airline-esque fares for train travel, but I have no idea if that would be less or more expensive.

@@romansroad2007 I paid around $750 from Denver to San Francisco for my son and I. Much cheaper to fly but the train is sure a great experience. Don't plan on being on time. That does include 3 good meals a day in the dining car. More environmentally friendly too. The Amtrak website will help you out.

Steve Evans roomette prices? Bedrooms are usually 1200$+

You're right; me being a Denver native, one would think I would remember that! Thanks for the memories!

Depending on how long ago you rode, it may have been jointed rails, which at 80mph would have been very bumpy. Nowadays, it’s all continuously welded rail, making straight track completely smooth except for over crossovers and diamonds.

@@thefareplayer2254--- Or switches, but you are 100% right, but they do maintain the tracks better & have better suspension on the new cars. The old steam engines with their drivers pounding away on the tracks & their weight was hard on the joints like you said. You know your shit, my Father & my Brother were engineers on the UPRR, & I was a Hostler for two summers.

Rode Amtrak California Zephyr recently. Ride quality was terrible. Problem is not the tracks but poor maintenance of Amtrak cars!

Andy Harman How old are you now

In 2000 I took an overnight train from Montreal to Toronto with a Vista Dome observation car. I slept in an upper berth, ate a continental breakfast in the observation car, then looked at Lake Ontario from the dome. Not as long as Toronto to Vancouver, but it filled my bucket list. Unfortunately VIA doesn't run it anymore.

Pancake Circus --- I'm ready let's go!

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So some guy put a hit piece in the paper? Who cares, I've heard good reviews on it.

It’s Zepher still runs everyday!

It's still running.

You get what you pay for. Want luxury travel and fine dining? Open up the wallet. Don't want to spend the money? Then peanuts it is. There's a reason why luxury train travel disappeared. Not enough people were willing to pay for it.

you can BUY service like this today. It just COSTS MONEY. Tickets on the new luxury rocky mountain train are over 1000 bucks a person. Flying in a plane cross country today for 300 bucks is the equivalent of taking a greyhound bus in the 50s.

@@johnthemachine Thank you for this update. As Mom and I don't gamble, drink like fishes and smoke like trains, we will look into this style of train travel.

Chris Evans --- Wagons?

Uncle San knows this video. Uncle San also knows that the railroads that operated this train are no longer separate railroads and/or are no longer in existence. Uncle San also know that the railroads wanted out of the passenger business because it was bleeding them dry. Rather than let the marketplace sort out rail travel, Uncle Sam stepped in and created AMTRAK. For better or worse, that's what we're stuck with. The days of the 20th Century Limited, Broadway Limited, California Zephyr, Denver Zephyr, Super Chief are gone forever; they won't return.

@@cats0182 Socialized RRs have worked well in Europe and other places. The failure of long distance trains in the USA involves a lot of factors. Sure Amtrak could do better with more funding and ridership but they loose money on every long distance route. I am glad they have kept some of these routes alive. Long live Amtrak (or something better.)

How much money you got? Consider renting a private car?

Their funding is continually butchered.

Must've been nice to have "white privilege" back then....

The preferred term nowadays is "melanin-challenged" instead of "white". Thank you for your cooperation.

​@@koichinishi9075--- What nationality is your name?, just curios.

@@Freshstart6354 Curious as to why bro?

Indeed - but not too late for the hats and heels brigade! I agree it would be nice if people took more pride in their appearance in public - but I don't think I'd want to return to the Hats and Heels that were seemingly mandatory and ubiquitous. Have you ever seen a pair of those heels? Wow! My Mother's were 6", easy. And it seemed like she had them in every color!

You didn't miss anything..train rides are boring and uncomfortable...learn to fly..!!

AmTrak still operates the California Zephyr as well as the Empire Builder to this day, I was on the Zephyr a couple of days ago...

people don't dress up as nicely but there's still beautiful full lounge cars, dining cars, and the ride is really quiet and comfortable for the most part. There's power outlets and a lot of legroom in coach, which now has recliner seats that are comfortable to sit in for hours and hours. The service isn't the same but it's better than what you'd find on commuter railroads and coach class flying

@@gasousa6559--- You never taken the California Zephyr, or the one that takes you across Canada I think it's the Canadian Pacific. We are all doing fine, stay on the plane, while we enjoy the picture of nature in it's splendor.

The motive power you see in this film : CB&Q F units, the DRG&W Alco PA's and WP F units would most likely indicate the film was photographed circa 1949 when the train was first inaugurated. Those CB&Q Fs were eventually replaced with E8s and the PAs on the Rio Grande segments were replaced by F7s in the early 1950s.

1949 could well be the date. I was judging the film from types of cars seen in the footage and not by the types of trains of which I know nothing.

Stuart , Can you keep your political comments to political videos ?

Seems to be touchy people here, thanks, I got to ride on the old New Haven RR, remember tablecloths, candles on the table, sure was a different era.

Mayank Thakur --- On the California Zephyr they would wash the cars while you sat in your seats in Denver, Colorado & Salt Lake City, Utah, while they changed power, going from one rail road to the other, there were three separate rail roads that ran the California Zephyr from Chicago to Oakland, (BRR, DRGRR, WPRR).

@@Freshstart6354 When you typed "BRR", do you mean, perhaps, the CB&Q (Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy)? I've never heard of the BRR, especially in connection with the California Zephyr.

@@captainmorgan757 --- You are correct, I did mean CB&Q RR not BRR (Burlington Rail Road), I do know the difference, thanks. My father worked 45 years for Union Pacific my brother worked 44 years, I worked only two summers for UP, never could get on full time, I retired from Kellogg's. I appreciate your help.

@@Freshstart6354 Why couldn't you get FT? I was thinking of sending my kid to UP. I work for a local public works. If everything else fails, I'll get him in PW. Union with a pension.

@@TheBandit7613 --- At the time of me wanting to be hired for UPRR, it was mid 70's & UPRR was being pressured to higher minorities, in other words, Female, Black, & Hispanic.

The "wonderful goodness of a mountain trout" no less!

That’s not even legal in 27 states…

I couldn't understand that stupidity either. They probably thought they were in a theater and were waiting for the house lights to dim and the curtain to rise on act 1.

You do not have to pay a toll fee to cross. The bridge is from Burlington, Iowa to Gulfport Illinois.

Should be considered a lethal weapon (at 19:30) but she obviously wore it in honor of viewing the Feather River right then ... and those other ladees' headgear?!? 'Um, just "why", comedy .... ??

Nope. The modern AMTRAK California Zephyr is almost identical to what is shown here, except the cars have a more modern look and furnishing, and the passengers don't dress up. But the train route and schedule is virtually identical, and you can still ride in fairly wide, comfortable reclining seats with footrests (in COACH), or in a Superliner bedroom that is nearly identical to what is shown here, plus you also have the option of the smaller Superliner Roomette that give you all the comforts of a bedroom, but without your own shower and toilet, for much less money. The only real difference is that the Superliner train does not have this same kind of observation car. I agree that the VIARAIL "Canadian" is probably the only cross country passenger train that still uses this old kind of bubble-dome observation car. I have had the pleasure of riding the Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver, and I did very much like being in the bubble domes for as much time as possible. However, while the Canadian has a nice passage through the Rockies, I think the California Zephyr has valid claim to the longer stretches of amazing scenery, and the mountain passes are more immediate and spectacular for the most part. Still, there are many excellent and rewarding scenic areas on the Canadian, and those bubble dome cars cannot be beat. Too bad the Canadian (Toronto-Vancouver, single person room) costs about three times as much as the California Zephyr (Chicago -San Francisco, roomette with one person in it), everyting else on the train being almost identical (of course, the Canadian is a 4 day trip, whilst the Zephyr is a 3 day trip).

You are missing my point, only the Canadian offers the vista dome experience now a days,

The problem was that no point was clearly made.... the comment was that one needs to ride the Canadian to get the experience shown in the video. .. it was not qualified to be in relation to the vistadome experience only. So my reply was that almost entirely the modern California Zephyr experience mirrors that of the video, but then I added that the modern trip is missing the Vistadome and that indeed I think only the Canadian offers that these days.

sean haugen made his point. That is to experience this level of travel, on streamliners with vista domes, you have to travel The Canadian. He wasn't disputing the modern AMTRAK.

Sean Haugen wrote only ’to experience THIS' without being clear what he meant by 'this'. Hence his point was not clearly made, and a reader would probably assume he mentioned the whole experience, not specifically the VistaDome. Hence my reply.

Radio active materials salesmen had to travel too

And the passenger compartments were probably sprayed down with DDT.

I love the Zephyr. A proper passenger train with a proper round tail Vista Dome observation car on the rear. I wonder what an Amtrak View Liner would look like as an end of the train "observation" car? My favorite was the Rio Grande, because they ran the F units as an A-B-B set, not A-B-A, so the train looked more streamlined to me. Edit: I was lucky to get to ride this train, as my Dad was in the Air force and we could have flown to where we were going, but Mom won out and I got the train ride of a lifetime. They would retire the Zephyr in favor of Amtrak, but she was a lady till the end. I was nine years old, and thank you for the memories. 💙 T.E.N.

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It's an EMD F-unit

@@TheBandit7613 Electro-Motive Engineering Corporation was founded in 1922 and purchased in 1930 to become a division of General Motors. Inventor, Charles F. Kettering, was a founder of Delco and head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. Delco was sold to GM in 1918. In 1938, GM began diesel engine production under their Detroit Diesel Division. Locomotive engines were made under their Cleveland Engine Division. In 1962, Cleveland Engine products moved over to GM's EMD Division (Electro-Motive Division).

Did they just drop a fishing line out the window of the train to catch the fish?

@@Ed_Okin Probably loaded onto the train at Denver or Glenwood Springs for westbound trains.

Air lines killed these trains and ocean liners with speed

@@bobsmoth-iv3sp Airlines didn't "kill them". Its called progress. People wanted to get where they were going while not having to spend days and nights getting there.

This makes me think of Under Siege 2.

When the baddies tangled with Casey Ryback, gourmet chef, things went badly wrong for them. Moral of the story... NEVER get a gourmet chef into an irate mood. Ditto for the first Under Siege movie.