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Railwindow is a website of notes on scenic train travel: Amtrak's long-distance and scenic routes and North America's heritage railroads. Dated fares, seasonal heritage listings and a Tuesday newsletter are not on this site yet. It is independent, sells nothing and takes no tour commissions. The small tools here do simple timetable arithmetic.
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Every photograph on Railwindow is a real photograph, used under its license and resized for the web. Public-domain photos are credited too. The 1974 Glacier National Park photo is colour-corrected: the original slide has faded to pink, and we rebalanced it, most strongly in the lower half.
| Photo | By | License | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| The southbound Coast Starlight below Bishop Peak, near San Luis Obispo, California, July 2011 | Loco Steve | CC BY 2.0 | Commons file page |
| Eastbound and westbound California Zephyrs meet in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, on a railroad postcard | Burlington, Rio Grande and Western Pacific railroads (postcard) | Public domain | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Zephyrs_in_Glenwood_Canyon_Colorado_at_Colorado_River.jpg |
| The Empire Builder at the edge of Glacier National Park, Montana, June 1974 | Charles O'Rear, for the U.S. EPA DOCUMERICA project (National Archives) | Public domain | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WESTBOUND_EMPIRE_BUILDER_WINDS_AROUND_THE_EDGE_OF_GLACIER_NATIONAL_PARK_AFTER_LEAVING_THE_EAST_GLACIER_PARK,_MONTANA..._-_NARA_-_556106.jpg |
| A Baltimore and Ohio train about to leave Chicago's Union Station, 1943 | Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information (Library of Congress) | Public domain | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%26O_passenger_train_1943.jpg |
| Inside a Sightseer Lounge car on the westbound Southwest Chief, Ribera, New Mexico, May 2024 | 4300streetcar | CC BY 4.0 | Commons file page |
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