Time Lapse

Nice image Don!

At first glance it appears the car has a wind sock mounted on it.😁 Where was it taken?

@scale rail posted:

UP and Western Pacific.....Don

I see a UP diesel, but I don't see anything "Western Pacific".

Might be too many equate theCZ with just the WP.  It was a 3 railroad train:  CB&Q, D&RGW, and WP.  I tend to think of it as a"Q" train because of that road's style of lettering on the passenger cars.

@Dominic Mazoch posted:

Might be too many equate theCZ with just the WP.  It was a 3 railroad train:  CB&Q, D&RGW, and WP.  I tend to think of it as a"Q" train because of that road's style of lettering on the passenger cars.

That,,,,,,,plus it is probably the former CB&Q dome observation car "Silver Solarium"!

Maybe in Portola, CA at the Western Pacific Museum.

@Hot Water posted:

That,,,,,,,plus it is probably the former CB&Q dome observation car "Silver Solarium"!

I blew up the foto.  It is SILVER SOLARIUM.

Just outside Reno, Sparks, Nevada. Silver Solarium is right!!! You win------Nothing! I think of the Zephyr as a Western Pacific train because I always saw it leaving Oakland with an WP F set pulling.

More from this trip. Don

Several years ago 917-D looked like this, before and after I took it out on the Museum's curved track. Take a look at the information/modified data plate of that beautiful diesel engine.  "https://photos.app.goo.gl/yG5wgWRdXNDoztni7"

The WP museum at Portola was rebuilding a zephyr dome the last time I was there. They still have more to go, hope they rebuild all of them. Don

@scale rail posted:

More from this trip. Don

Hoping this becomes a normal scene again.

Nice images Don.