Amtrak engine #192 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through Gore Canyon, Colorado.

The California Zephyr runs next to the Colorado River as it passes through Gore Canyon, Colorado.

Into the Light

On one of those days when blue skies were littered with large clouds, one of those clouds shadowed Gore Canyon on the Rio Grande’s Moffat line. As Amtrak’s Ca... (more)

Gorgeous In Gore. As Amtrak Train 6 (California Zephyr) negotiates the heights above the Colorado River through Gore Valley near Kremmling, Colorado on July 27, 2020, Webb Rail's former Nor... (more)

A pair of GEs lead BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest into the approach to Gore Canyon above the white water of the upper Colorado River. An EMD DPU provides assistance for trek over the continental div... (more)

BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest snakes through the steep and rugged Gore Canyon on the upper Colorado River as the morning's snow storm recedes. Though the canyon is short (approx. 3 miles), its wall... (more)

Rio Grande Train 138 leaves the more open land at Azure and enters a narrow shelf as it dives into the narrow confines of Gore Canyon, Colorado.

Dwarfed by its surroundings, Amtrak Train 5, the California Zephyr, works its way west through the confines of Gore Canyon, Colorado.

The Rio Grande Zephyr tiptoes along a narrow shelf as it exits Gore Canyon and proceeds to Azure.

Of all the canyons traversed by the Rio Grande Zephyr, Gore Canyon was arguably the most spectacular. Viewed from Inspiration Point, Train 17 threads through 60-foot-long Tunnel 40, the shortest b... (more)

With four SD-40T-2’s eastbound D&RGW 5411 enters dramatic Gore Canyon on June 9, 1980 where UP Chairman Edward Harriman thought he was going to build a dam on the Colorado River in the early 190... (more)

A 13 car California Zephyr passes through Tunnel 38 in Gore Canyon on a clear May day in 1985

The overhead slide detector fences are ever vigilant as eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr Train 18 negotiates one of the most rugged canyons in Colorado — awesome Gore Canyon. The canyon was named a... (more)

What became America's sweetheart as a holdout from joining Amtrak, D&RGW's westbound "Rio Grande Zephyr" was just doing its thing delighting passengers in remote and rugged Gore Canyon, Colo. on ... (more)

SP 378 heads into a tunnel in Gore Canyon