Most likely would be from Denver to Salt Lake City via Wyoming.Anybody able to give an idea which route the detour might take??
Most likely would be from Denver to Salt Lake City via Wyoming.Anybody able to give an idea which route the detour might take??
It's an even sadder deal when one considers this book you mention was written a dozen or so years ago. Before, of course, SDS, the SP/UP merger, and a bunch of other things.Reading the book "Zephyr, Tracking An American Dream" tells you first hand what the Onboard Crews have to try and work with when there's little money in the budget for the operation of the trains. That is just a sad deal!
I don't think anybody has ever answered this poor guy's question properly yet.Anybody able to give an idea which route the detour might take??
I don't think anybody has ever answered this poor guy's question properly yet.Anybody able to give an idea which route the detour might take??
From Denver you will go north to near Cheyenne, Wyoming. From there you go west on the original Union Pacific transcontinental main to Ogden, Utah. At Ogden you turn south to Salt Lake City to rejoin the normal Amtrak route. This route can be faster than the route normally used by the CZ through the rockies. It lis lower in grades and straighter. I think distance wise it is about the same. You are going across southern Wyoming more or less parallel to I-80.
If they bypass Salt Lake City as well, which I think is unlikely, then you continue west across the Great Salt Lake on the Lucin Cutoff and rejoin the normal Amtrak route at about Elko, Nevada.
Thanks for the information. I just found some excellent Maps on BNSF websiteI don't think anybody has ever answered this poor guy's question properly yet.Anybody able to give an idea which route the detour might take??
From Denver you will go north to near Cheyenne, Wyoming. From there you go west on the original Union Pacific transcontinental main to Ogden, Utah. At Ogden you turn south to Salt Lake City to rejoin the normal Amtrak route. This route can be faster than the route normally used by the CZ through the rockies. It lis lower in grades and straighter. I think distance wise it is about the same. You are going across southern Wyoming more or less parallel to I-80.
Enter your email address to join: