{"id":34215,"date":"2022-09-08T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34215"},"modified":"2022-09-07T18:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T22:40:29","slug":"amtrak-california-zephyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-california-zephyr\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak California Zephyr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love to gaze across the great expanse of the desert. On the morning of September 4, 1996, we climbed atop one of the &#8216;mud mounds&#8217; at Floy in the Utah desert east of Green River and waited for Amtrak No.6\u2014the <em>California Zephyr<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made this trailing view on Fujichrome Velvia slide film with my Nikon F3T fitted with a Nikkor f4.0 200mm prime telephoto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amtrak&#8217;s long distance trains were in the transition between the 1970s-era F40PH-2s and the mid-1990s era General Electric GENESIS&#x2122; P40s and in this view of the <em>California Zephyr<\/em> featured one of each locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"321\" data-attachment-id=\"34217\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-california-zephyr\/amtrak_no6_calif_zephyr_east_of_floy_utah_sept4_1996_velvia50briansolomon2022_203420\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?fit=1700%2C1151\" data-orig-size=\"1700,1151\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?fit=709%2C480\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?fit=474%2C321\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?resize=474%2C321\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?w=1700 1700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?resize=709%2C480 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?resize=1022%2C692 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?resize=205%2C139 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?resize=1536%2C1040 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amtrak_No6_Calif_Zephyr_east_of_Floy_Utah_Sept4_1996_Velvia50BrianSolomon\u00a92022_203420.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the back of the train was a private car with its single red light  marking the rear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#5587bc\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of September 4, 1996, we climbed atop one of the &#8216;mud mounds&#8217; 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