Taking Amtrak’s California Zephyr Across Country

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Passengers on Amtrak’s California Zephyr watch the Iowa landscape pass by from the popular Skydeck lounge. A writer recreated a three-day trip that her family took in 1967, when the train was called the Silver Zephyr.

Kevin Miyazaki for The New York Times

Taking Amtrak’s California Zephyr Across Country

See what a writer saw as she recreated an eye-opening rail adventure that took her family to the Summer of Love.