USA

The stainless steel coaches of Amtrak's well-named Sunset Limited catch the glint of the West Texas sunset during our stop in El Paso station! I was travelling the 2350 miles from San Francisco and there was still another 24 hours to go before arriving home in New Orleans.

On our journey from San Francisco to Yosemite National Park we turned off Highway 120 to Vista Point overlooking Woods Creek in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The car was a rental vehicle. I think it's a 1977 Dodge Aspen 4-door sedan. Can anyone confirm that? HFF & welcome back to Ipernity!

The Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad terminus in Chicago was rebuilt in 1984 as the Ogilvie Transportation Center but this view shows the original station in all its gloom. 1953 built C&NW EMD E8 diesel 521 waits departure northwards. These fine engines have since been withdrawn.

City street scene looking up Powell Street at Sutter near Union Square with Powell-Hyde cable car number 10 heading downhill.

I made a stopover in Anchorage when on the return trip to Indonesia after a meeting in New York. I had the whole day - my plane didn't depart until the evening - so rented a car and drove north on Highway 1 & into the mountains.

The massive motors of a Saturn rocket outside the Houston Space Centre, home of NASA Mission Control in 1979. This is probably no longer on outdoor display. From Google Earth there is clearly now a very large hanger at the Rocket Park.

The Golden Gate bridge seen from the Marin County end looking south. We were returning to San Francisco from a visit to Muir Woods redwood forest. I was attending a geophysical conference in SF & took an afternoon off, rented a car with a colleague & explored the countryside north of the bay area. HFF to everyone & have a great weekend.

My second trip to California was via a 1250 mile railway journey from Denver to San Francisco which started on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad to Ogden & after a bus ride from there to Salt Lake City city centre we changed to Amtrak. From Salt Lake to San Francisco we took the Southern Pacific route through the Sierra Nevadas via the snow-covered Donner Pass. This shot was taken from the open end-of-carriage connecting door in eastern California between Truckee & Colfax. Note the caboose on the tail end of an eastbound freight train heading uphill.