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[quote user="daveklepper"] You are a good writer and reporter, and I thank you for your descriptions of your trip. Hint:  On your next trip, if you can do so without much extra fare, go via Oakland (Emeriville) and the California Zephyr at least one way.   Others on this Forum will know whether you get more of the excellent Salt Lake City - Denver scenery eastbound or westbound, but a lot of the scenery, Soldier Summit between Provo and Helper, and everything east of Grand Junction, is about as wonderful scenery as exists anywhere.   I can truthfully compare it to the Swiss Alps, which I have also covered pretty throgoughly. The book "Never on Wednesday," if you can find it, has some wonderful photos so you will know what to expect.   It details the 1970-1988 Rio Grande Zephyr that was the D&RGW's own train three times a week each direction until Amtrak rerouted its train daily off the UP main through Cehyenne and Rawlins to the D&RGW Moffat Tunnal line. [/quote] I have taken the CZ both ways between Emeryville and Denver.  The scenery is great in both directions; it is amongst some of the best that I have laid eyes on.  The scenery in Colorado that you describe is awesome in either direction, and the CZ is scheduled to maximize viewing of it.  Also, the scenery through Donner Pass is spectacular.   I have ridden the CZ in the spring, fall, and winter.  I liked the winter trip best of all.  The train was not as crowded as in the spring and fall, thereby making for a better experience, and the snow scenes in the Rockies as well as through Donner Pass were something to behold.
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