Global Rail Tours
As we approach fall, Global Rail Tours specializes in US rail tours. For the vacation out of the ordinary, try our weekend packages. Pumpkins and fall treats in the high desert of Arizona, or chug through tunnels into the redwoods in the Coastal Range.
Blizzard on the City of San Francisco 2009
The Blizzard on the City of San Francisco is a rail tour Valentines Weekend of 2009. Mid February to the early days of March offers blizzard conditions between Colfax and Truckee, California. Join former National Park Service Ranger, and University of Phoenix Geography instructor as your host for this incredible photo opportunity, from the reaches of San Francisco Bay, to the Biggest Little City in the World. Board in Emeryville, Martinez, Davis, Sacramento, or Roseville for the mountain communities of Colfax, Blue Canyon, Yuba Gap, Cisco, and Truckee. Gaze out the window as with a private natural interpreter imagine how the mountains were run, and right around the corner another tunnel and the unknown.
The City of San Francisco, the flagship of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads in the West, has been dismantled since the 1970's, and the California Zephyr is but a memory on the Western Pacific Railroad and Rio Grande railroad in Colorado. Amtrak's California Zephyr runs on the Southern Pacific/Central Pacific, Rio Grande, Union Pacific, and Burlington Northern tracks from Emeryville to Chicago.
On March 8, 2007, we were snowed in a blizzard near Truckee, and spent the night on the East Bound California Zephyr in a white blizzard. Not in danger, adult passengers passed the evening sipping white wine, and feasting on fruit baskets and cheese with crackers.
For the occasion, we will issue Blizzard on the City of San Francisco blankets, relax gliding through the snow, ice, and possibly a blizzard. Arriving in Reno, for a two night stay on Reno's Virginia Square, with meals provided at participating downtown restaurants.
On Sunday afternoon, we board the West bound California Zephyr for the scenic trip over the Sierra Nevada for tales of train robberies, the Donner Party, building of the railroad, the geology of the region, hydraulic mining, politics of the old west in Colfax, and onto Auburn, and agriculture of the Great Central Valley.
Details on the Blizzard on the City of San Francisco rail tour will be available in September. Follow your instincts to the rails with Global Rail Tours.
