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	California Zephyr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Denver and Rio Grande Western #601 leads the California Zephyr westbound at the east switch in the Grand Valley, in Mesa County, Colorado on March 14, 1949.
		Prior to the formation of Amtrak, the California Zephyr (the CZ, or "Silver Lady") was a passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBandQ), Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DandRGW) and Western Pacific Railroad (WP), along almost the same route.
		Before Amtrak operated a train with this name, the California Zephyr was operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from Chicago to Denver, Colorado, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad between Denver and Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to San Francisco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_Zephyr (1665 words)

	California Zephyr History
		The route of the California Zephyr covered 2,525 miles and took an average of 2 ½ days to complete.
		Amtrak currently offers passenger service under the name of the California Zephyr, though it follows a modified route from the original, and in the opinion of many a purist, Amtrak's version is hardly a fitting repository for such a rich name.
		California Zephyr cars found themselves in the employ of Amtrak, AutoTrain, while others went into service on railroads in Mexico and Canada.
	calzephyr.railfan.net /history.html (1301 words)

	California Zephyr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Before Amtrak operated a train with this name, the California Zephyr was operated jointly by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy (CBandQ), Denver and Rio Grande Western (DRGW) and Western Pacific (WP) railroads.
		With the new cars delivered that year, cars arriving in Chicago on the California Zephyr were made available for use on the for an overnight round trip to Lincoln, NE.
		March 1 1955: The eastbound California Zephyr, while traveling through, sees its first on-train birth as Peter Zars is born.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/California_Zephyr (726 words)

	California Zephyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Orders for the California Zephyr equipment had been placed with The Budd Company in the fall of 1945, but because of a backlog of orders, work on the cars had not been started, and the specifications were altered to provide five vista-domes on each of the six trains necessary for daily service.
		Peter Zars of Alameda, California had boarded the train at Oakland on February 28th for the trip east planning on the expectant mother giving birth in Hayden, Colorado with the assistance of her childhood family physician in the tiny hospital her father had helped build.
		Discontinuance of the California Zephyr is necessary to keep Western Pacific in a strong, competitive position to meet the freight transportation needs of the people and economy of its service areas.
	www.wplives.com /operations/passenger/CZHIST_1/czhist_1.html (5994 words)

	Denver Zephyr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Denver Zephyr was a passenger train operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad between Chicago, Illinois, and Denver, Colorado.
		At the time when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad had become part of the Burlington Northern Railroad merger, Amtrak, in its first year of operation, 1971, had decided to continue on with the two of the trains remaining from the service between Chicago and Denver, the California Zephyr and the Denver Zephyr.
		It should be noted that on Amtrak's first day of operation on May 1, 1971, the California Zephyr was initially tri-weekly service from the Denver to Oakland portion of the route, yet daily service from Chicago to Denver was maintained.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denver_Zephyr (279 words)

	California Zephyr - Rail Tours In The United States
		Not only will more California Zephyr passenger cars be available in 2009 for this event, but we will run this historic train over the original route from Oakland all the way to Chicago.
		Phil says that he must admit that working our "California Zephyr" excursion on Donner Pass was some of the finest days in his 35 years of railroading.
		Dear Chris: Your "Domes to Reno: The California Zephyr Returns" was a huge success, and I was extremely grateful to be a small part of it.
	www.trainsunlimitedtours.com /california-zephyr.html (892 words)

	California Zephyr
		We caught the California Zephyr out of Emeryville on Monday morning, overnighted in Denver Tuesday night, boarded the Desert Wind Wednesday morning and arrived in Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.
		The Zephyr was pulled by two Amtrak F40 locomotives followed by three material handling cars, a coach dorm, two sleepers, two coach/baggage cars, a Sightseer Lounge car and the dining car.
		Jack and Janell were from Firebaugh, California - a small farming community in the Central Valley and were on a round-the-country train trip purchased for them by their children.
	www.batnet.com /bogart/calzephyr.html (6301 words)

	California Zephyr, Part One
		The history of the California Zephyr is synonymous with that of the transcontinental railroad itself.
		Much of the current Zephyr route travels along the western segment of the transcontinental railroad, which was joined to the eastern segment with a golden spike at Promontory, Utah, in 1869.
		Although I have taken the Zephyr numerous times between San Francisco and Chicago, my favorite segment of the route is San Francisco to Truckee, in the high Sierra region.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/north_american_train_travel/49557 (433 words)

	Amtrak California Zephyr
		California grows over two million pounds of almonds annually, and 70% of these are processed on this 16-acre, $35 million plant.
		This is Cape Horn, the steepest slope on the route of the Zephyr.
		Salt Lake City is the connecting station for the California Zephyr and the Desert Wind from Los Angeles.
	www.trainweb.com /routes/route_05/rg_5old.htm (6538 words)

	California Whitewater River Rafting Trips with Zephyr Whitewater on the Kings, Tuolumne, Merced, and American Rivers.
		California Whitewater River Rafting Trips with Zephyr Whitewater on the Kings, Tuolumne, Merced, and American Rivers.
		Our California whitewater rafting trips are great for families, for the first-timer rafter, and for the advanced thrill seeker.
		Zephyr Whitewater is the largest whitewater river rafting outfitter on both the Tuolumne and Merced rivers near Yosemite.
	www.zrafting.com (470 words)

	American Experience \| Streamliners \| People & Events
		If the glory years of the Burlington Railroad began in 1934, with the Burlington Zephyr's phenomenal Dawn-to-Dusk Run, surely they culminated in 1949, with the arrival of the California Zephyr.
		Williams, however, took poetic license when he sang of "the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen." The inspiration for his song truly belonged to the Burlington, two men named Budd, and to the fleet of trains that spearheaded a revolution in the railroad industry.
		Renamed the Pioneer Zephyr in 1936 to celebrate its position as the first in the Burlington's new fleet, the premier streamliner was largely responsible for ridership and revenue growth over the next two years.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/streamliners/peopleevents/e_zephyr.html (661 words)

	Cal Zephyr History
		On March 19th, 1949, the California Zephyr was officially christened by Warner Brothers star, Miss Eleanor Parker while the new train stood in the middle of San Francisco’s Embarcadero Street.
		The California Zephyr traveled a total of 2,525 miles and took an average of 2 ½ days to complete her journey.
		Cyrus Osborn had some measure of success on his diesel sales tour, as the locomotives that were chosen for pulling the California Zephyr by the CBandQ and the WP and a year later by the DandRGW, were the EMD F3s.
	www.broadway-limited.com /products/calzephyrhist.htm (2094 words)

	California Zephyr Virtual Museum
		Welcome to the California Zephyr Virtual Museum, the internet home of the train that became known as the "Silver Lady." The CZ was the grandest, and thus the most famous, way to reach the Golden State and the west.
		The California Zephyr Virtual Museum is combined with John Wilson's
		Copyright notice: The images in the California Zephyr Virtual Museum exist in the public domain, except where noted.
	calzephyr.railfan.net (146 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for California Zephyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		California Zephyr Huge selection of California Zephyr items.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "California Zephyr" at HighBeam.
		The Sacramento Bee, Calif., Peter Schrag column: In the California air: Zephyrs of political reform.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=California+Zephyr (197 words)

	Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Passenger Cars - Silver Crescent
		Drawing Room "D" was the most unique accommodation on the entire "California Zephyr." It was the largest bedroom, sleeping three persons.
		On the rear of each of the seven Dome Observation Lounge cars of the "CZ" was installed a stainless steel box with the words "California Zephyr" emblazoned in red tubular neon.
		A bright red beacon which swept the sky with a horizontal figure eight pattern was used on the rear of all "California Zephyr" trains.
	www.goldcoast-railroad.org /cz10.htm (2438 words)

	American Experience \| Streamliners \| Special Features
		The Zephyr was really beautiful, the service fantastic, the food delicious and the Zephyrettes were so helpful and friendly.
		I had the privilege of seeing the Zephyr train in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and can honestly say that the Zephyrs in all of their forms were truly the most beautiful trains in the world.
		By the late sixties,when we returned to California on the Sunset, the train had been reduced to a five car mixture of coaches and an automat car with mediocre food.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/streamliners/sfeature/sf_memories.html (6958 words)

	The California Zephyr VHS Copper Media
		For twenty-one years beginning in 1949, the California Zephyr with its famous vista dome observation cars pampered nearly two million passangers as they traveled between San Francisco and Chicago.
		This exciting program will carry you back to the final years of the California Zephyr when America's passenger trains were terminally ill and bleeding red ink from huge operating losses.
		Through rare 16mm archival film footage and personal recollections of those who worked on the train, you'll experience the pride and excitment of the original California Zephyr before the streamliner era ceased in 1971.
	www.travelvideostore.com /product_info.php?products_id=3731 (189 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - All Aboard Amtrak
		On a daily basis, Railroad Museum Docents can be found aboard the California Zephyr in either direction between Sacramento and Reno, providing narration about the route's history and communities found along the way, and pointing out some of the outstanding natural and geographical features.
		Scheduled Docents board Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr in Sacramento in the morning, and ride across Donner Pass to Reno, where they stay overnight.
		The Museum's On-Board Amtrak program is supported by the California State Railroad Museum Foundation, which provides overnight lodging for volunteers in the Reno area, and by Amtrak, which provides transportation at no cost to participants.
	www.csrmf.org /doc.asp?id=101 (476 words)

	California Here We Come Amtrak Tour :: Vacations By Rail ::
		Westbound on Amtrak's California Zephyr takes you along one the United States' Great Rail Journeys.
		Westbound 2300 miles from Chicago to San Francisco on the California Zephyr, including the spectacular Colorado Rockies and the Sierra Nevada Mountains (over the famous Donner Pass).
		The Zephyr will pull out of Denver this morning and begin its climb over the ice and snow-covered Front Range toward the Continental Divide.
	www.vacationsbyrail.com /usa/amtrak_vacations/california_we_come/index.html (1367 words)

	Broadway Limited - California Zephyr - CB&Q Vista Dome Car #4716 "Silver Bridle" - BLI-502
		The route of the California Zephyr covered 2,525 miles and took an average of 2 1.2 days to complete.
		The California Zephyr was the train that became known as the "Silver Lady." The CZ was the grandest, and thus the most famous, way to reach the Golden State and the west.
		BLI's Zephyrs will be the most desirable California Zephyrs ever produced.
	www.davidsdepot.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=198 (254 words)

	Travel Channel :: Made in America :: The Zephyr Train
		The Zephyr embarked on its maiden voyage May 26, 1934, traveling at 78 miles per hour from Chicago to Denver.
		The line was eventually extended to San Francisco and the affectionately dubbed "Silver Lady" was formally renamed the California Zephyr.
		The Zephyr was America’s first diesel-powered streamline passenger train and cut all existing speed records in half.
	travel.discovery.com /fansites/jrmia/goods/zephyr.html (190 words)

	Gallery Bookshop : : the California Zephyr
		So when my mother, father and younger brother boarded the Zephyr in the summer of 1950 the famous train, like my brother, was not yet a year old.
		The Zephyr was not even the fastest train west -- "the Overland Limited, which bypassed the high Rockies through Wyoming on the tracks of the Chicago & North Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, was more than ten hours faster.
		Most of Zephyr is concerned with Kisor's many experiences as he rides the Amtrak version across the country.
	www.gallerybooks.com /bkm/BkM31201.htm (1129 words)

	CPRR Discussion Group - Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
		The last regularly scheduled passenger train down the Feather River was the California Zephyr – in 1970 when it ended service.
		Last eastbound California Zephyr thru Feather River Canyon was March 22, 1970; westbound March 23, 1970.
		I was a passenger on both and also rode first California Zephyr on March 20, 1949.
	cprr.org /CPRR_Discussion_Group/2005/09/california-zephyr.html (190 words)

	California Whitewater River Rafting near Yosemite with Ahwahnee Whitewater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ZEPHYR offers both pre and post trip camping on our very popular Merced river trips, the closest whitewater to Yosemite Valley.
		ZEPHYR also offers whitewater trips on the Tuolumne and Kings rivers.
		California Rivers are rated on a scale of I to VI with I being easy and VI being unrunnable.
	www.ahwahnee.com (195 words)

	Colorado to California Aboard Amtrak's California Zephyr
		I first rode the California Zephyr as a twelve year old on my way to a river rafting camp outside Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
		The Zephyr was in its final year of operation prior to the nationalization of the nation’s passenger railroads and the creation of Amtrak.
		He was a carpenter out of Visalia, California and had come to Colorado to visit friends in Carbondale and get in a couple of days of skiing in Aspen.
	www.flyertalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=298749 (5304 words)

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