Though I labeled the slide "Lone Star" it is way too long and this must be the Southwest Limited.

EB Southwest Limited gets a cleaning while a Chef stretches his legs.

The Southwest Limited backing out of CUS.

Amtrak 515 and an E unit booster get a little liquid refreshment at the San Diego Santa Fe passenger station. Train 773, from Los Angeles, was comprised of the two units, a baggage car, coach lou... (more)

After an overnight run on the Monon from Chicago, the southbound Floridian gets serviced at Louisville's Union Station. Now those overhead water tanks in the SDP40Fs can be filled with water.

Amtrak SDP40Fs 622 and 587 have just completed running around their train in Cheyenne and are preparing to tie back onto the headend of the train. This was how I spent my Thanksgiving Day in 1974... (more)

The southbound Floridian changes crews at Nashville Union Station. The deteriorating condition of the Indiana rail network in the early 70's forced Amtrak to look for alternate routes around the ... (more)

From left to right - BN's Pacific Zip, Amtrak #7 behind 538 and 532, Amtrak E8 332 off #793 and Amtrak #11 preparing to depart for Los Angeles. A little different perspective of the under-constru... (more)

You can't get there from here.......by scheduled passenger train any longer. The westbound Amtrak North Coast Hiawatha waits at Butte for the station work to be done before proceeding west behin... (more)

The eastbound San Francisco Zephyr descends from the Sherman Summit toward Cheyenne in the afternoon.

Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder is right on time as it passes the BN helper set waiting for its next assignment in front of the Essex depot, which sat directly across the tracks from the Izaak W... (more)

At evening, busy Railroad employees are checking and servicing cars and trains at the Amtrak coach yards

Former Amtrak SDP40F #640, rebuilt to SD40F-2 specs as ATSF 5256, leads a train at Amarillo, TX in this 1994 view.

A very late Amtrak #3, the Italic Southwest Chief (or was it the Southwest Limited in 1979?) blasts through San Dimas on its way to Los Angeles. Led by a trio of EMD SDP40Fs, the tr... (more)

Westbound Amtrak Southwest Ltd. with two SDP40Fs, 586 and 596, is passing the Coach yard.