This undated image provided by Amtrak shows the California Zephyr train near Truckee, Calif. The California Zephyr starts in Emeryville, Calif., near San Francisco, en route to Reno, Nev., a 236-mile ...

Nobody understands the magic of Amtrak's California Zephyr train quite like Brad Swartzwelter, better known to passengers as Conductor Brad. During Swartzwelter's 30-year career as a conductor, he ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’ll bet Ralph Waldo Emerson was on a train when he wrote: “Life is a journey, not a destination.” Riding the rails lulls passengers back to an era when ...

My four-day Amtrak ride from California to Washington, DC, taught me some great tips for long train rides, and I packed some ...

The Andersen Corp. in Bayport agreed over the summer to store six Minnesota Zephyr dinner-train cars for 15 days. Fifteen days turned into five months. Now, Andersen says it is owed $250,000 by Zephyr ...

The train didn’t leave the station after all. Plans to move two of the Minnesota Zephyr dinner train cars out of downtown Stillwater early Wednesday, July 11, were postponed, said owner Dave Paradeau.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — The journey east on Amtrak's California Zephyr train is as good as the destination. Riding the rails from the San Francisco Bay Area to Reno, Nev., offers beautiful views and a ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. (AP) – The journey east on Amtrak’s California Zephyr train is as good as the destination. Riding the rails from the San Francisco Bay area to Reno, Nev., offers beautiful views and ...