A Train Odyssey 7, AMTRAK "California Zephyr" (eastbound) Part 6
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- This is Part 6 of an 8-part mega-train Odyssey, consisting of my eastbound 3-day trip on AMTRAK's "California Zephyr" from Emeryville, California to Chicago's Union Station in August 2022.
Because the weather was so fine, and the time of year provided a lot more spectacular scenery during daylight hours, I decided to take a LOT of video, and edit to preserve as much good content as possible. I also decided to edit so that each of the 8 parts (except the shorter Part 1 "Prologue") was about 1.5 hours duration, rather than make a smaller number of longer video segments.
I have a MUCH shorter RUclips video of the California Zephyr, taken on a westbound train in late December, and that is only about 1.5 hours long by itself, if you want a shorter viewing experience or want to see the route in the Winter with snow-covered mountain passes.
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Thank you for this. I'm an old man now and won't be able to do it but it's sweet to be able to watch it😂
I have always loved trains. Watching your odysseys makes me want to tackle the AmTrak schedule from Trinidad. Thanks for the travel footage.
The rock formations through here remind me of a great deal of eastern Washington.
I wish there were more of these great adventures. 1:23:45
It's way cool, to have some Brits enjoying this ride.
I've seen a lot of stand-up paddle boarders on the Whitefish River in Whitefish, MT.
Some of that grass along those mountains is so green!
You probably won’t see this comment but I like your content because you show plenty of footage and no annoying background music. More reasons but those are the main two. Thank you! Great job
At about 00:05:20 in the video, one can see the results of the 2020 Grizzly Creek wildfire (started by a disabled vehicle on I-70). The railroad diverges from I-70 at Dotsero (contrary to other popular myths, Dotsero is the Spanish phonetic pronunciation of the name of a prominent Ute Indian warrior), following the Colorado River and its upper tributary, the Fraser River, to the Moffat Tunnel. Oh, and the Colorado River was, until the 1920's, called the Grand River (not to be confused with the Rio Grande River, that also begins in Colorado) above Lee's Ferry, Arizona. Thus, the names of Grand County (one in Utah, one in Colorado), Grand Junction, Grand Valley, and Grand Lake. The Dotsero Cutoff was built in 1934 to connect the then Denver & Salt Lake Railroad (though it never went any farther west than Craig, Colorado) at Bond, Colorado to the Denver & Rio Grande Western mainline at Dotsero (the D&RGW mainline east of Dotsero crossed Tennessee Pass and ran eastward to Pueblo, Colorado. Most of that line is still in place, but has been out of service from Minturn to Parkdale (west of Canon City, Colorado) since 1998 The actual railway junction at Bond is called "Orestod", which is "Dotsero" spelled backwards. By the way, driving traffic-choked I-70 between Denver and Glenwood Springs quit being enjoyable years ago--especially in winter weather, when it can be a complete nightmare trip dealing with hordes of clueless tourists and other drivers with little or no winter mountain driving experience. The road across the valley and up the slope as one enters Gore Canyon is Trough Road--I've driven it many times.
I was going to inform you the track departs I-70 at Dotsero… another comment details the path. In my experience, the rafters just east of 131 (near Rancho Del Rio) will happily moon you. Thanks for your work, I have really enjoyed these travel blogs and your attention to detail on museum tours.
Andrew Teichman, I am wondering what part of my video suggested that I-70 continues to follow the tracks all the way up into the mountains, since I knew that they do not......?
@@youtuuba I wouldn't suggest taking i-70. Lots of potholes.
Rather more shallow colorado valley than in Arizona !
23:50 It is sad when they keep lonely backhoes fenced in like this ..... Yes it is! it reminds me of another deeply sad but, similarly overlooked situation of why hedgehogs can't learn how to share ;-). Love your videos!
I really like your videos
I have missed your previous posts 1 to 5. Glad to see you again.
This is a great train ride between Glenwood Springs and Denver. While living in Denver, I did it twice as a round trip with an overnight stay in the hotel across the street from the train station. I also did the bike trail one time. our video does a good job showing the trip. It did seem to me, however, the color has a yellow tint like looking through a bad pair of sunglasses.
The rock formations through here remind me Glenwood Canyon, Colorado.
WHAT? I think you must be joking, since a lot of this video IS in Glenwood Canyon......
@@youtuubaMan this train really reminds me of the California Zephyr
2 years ago there were a lot of mooners. On the Colorado river. I don't know maybe wrong time of the year LOL.
No butt strippers
Yes, these mountains are beautiful but my 'taste' in mountains are the snow-capped ones in Glacier National Park. How about the other commentator's view of this? JMS
KU84dh37, the mountains around Glacier don't get the "snow caps" like they used to, and the mountains the Zephyr goes through get lots of snow.
As for the "other commentators view", who is that person (you wrote singular), and why would I care about their views in regard to MY channel (which is where you have made your comment)?
Maybe Van Morrison was riding Amtrak through that section when he was inspired to write “MOON DANCE”.......No?
...and one winter years ago it was the inspiration for "Blue Moon"...
Are there differences in your current train from your last one?
I don't get it... Why were the rafters waving pathetic? I use to live near a railroad and I always wave to the conductor and he would wave back! So 🤷
This reminds me of a trip that I took to Milwaukee several years ago with an old friend. He has a CB radio in the car. We used to take the train back when there was a station in Mundelein. Now there's a Dunkin' donuts or something there. When's the next video?
What happened to the lady who wanted to share your table? I had a nice train romance written in
Have you ever researched how the "Moon over Colorado" tradition got started?
No butt strippers
At 1:01:09, those were some BEAUTIFUL mooners, and you did NOT point 'em out; you're slipping!! Then, at 1:03:30, a nice lady gave us a pantie-flash! It would be nice if a lady gave us a full-frontal! Oh my, but aren't we enjoying ourselves?? But you gotta ask, how much of the passengers and crew are actually noticing? Church ladies, too(?), they're bound to write seething letters, emails, to the Colorado Justice Department to do something about that. Then, there's bound to be more action taken by Colorado State Troopers, if during collision investigations on I-70, they find that the culpable motorists admit to being distracted by moonies. Then, they're going to have to place undercover Troopers on the river, to put an unfortunate stop to all of the malarkey. Sigh, oh well.
I'm DEE-LIGHTFULLY surprised to see a lot of chicks gotten into the spirit. For us dudes, believe you me, it's far more pleasurable for us guys to see pantie-flashes and derrieres, rather than when guys do it.
"for us guys to see pantie-flashes and derrieres,..." Not always true, as 80% of US males are Bi. They can have it both ways.😂
Who do we complain to at RUclips about the commercials? Your video plays for a min or less and it goes to commercial. Few more min and more commercials. It does that for about the 1st ten min and then it just plays your video.
cwr961, you are just waking up to this now?
Used to be, RUclips only put commercials on monetized videos, but more recently the greedy guts add commercials to every video, unless they are paid to NOT do so.
Well, philosophically, they don't charge people to host videos, and need to pay for all that somehow, but certainly they data mine viewers and sell that. We could all vote by abandoning RUclips, but seriously who's going to do that when they are the only game in town?
@@youtuuba 35:20 Butt voyeur much?