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 ...

Amtrak’s California Zephyr glides nearly 2,500 miles between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. Colorado is right in the middle, with train stations nestled in mountains, deserts and plains.

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.

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 ...

Tourists today arrive largely by air. For many decades, many came by train. In our jet-speed age, it may be difficult to realize that the slower travel by train was part of the fun of a vacation in ...

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 ...

One of Minnesota's largest private foundations has paid $2.5 million in cash for the train depot on Stillwater's north end that most recently was home to the Zephyr Theatre before it shut down last ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A public auction intended to sell off some of the cars from the defunct Minnesota Zephyr rail line has been canceled. The Washington County Sheriff's Office was slated to sell ...

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 ...

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 ...