Amtrak "Southwest Chief" Train 4 negotiates a telephone pole-free curve on ex-AT&SF northward near Levy, N.M. on May 29, 2003. Uhh, how many P42's does it take to power this train? Doubtlessl... (more)

Amtrak’s Southwest Chief flies through Darling, Arizona, after crossing over in front of an eastbound Santa Fe freight at the Darling crossovers on April 19, 1990. Soon, once Amtrak gets past an... (more)

Amtrak heritage unit #66 leads a 4+ hour late westbound Southwest Chief along the Cajon Sub between Helendale and Oro Grande.

The Southwest Chief takes off from the Ft. Madison station stop a couple minutes late. Now the train will roar west across the Marceline Sub for the 217 mile trip to Kansas City, MO, which will is... (more)

The Southwest Chief rolls east on Main #1 as it rounds up a eastbound BNSF freight at Baring. Here the train passes under the classic Santa Fe signal bridge in danger of replacement with the new P... (more)

The Phase I Amtrak P42 takes the Southwest Chief up the BNSF Marceline Sub. at MP 431.3, between Atherton and Sibley. This is a cool looking engine and it's pretty fun to have these anniversary u... (more)

A three-hour late Southwest Chief rolling through West Victorville.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief carefully glides through the switches as it backs out of LAUPT. The deadheading train set is heading over to Amtrak's 8th street coach yard for service, it would head out ... (more)

Amtrak's Southwest Chief has just departed Chicago Union Station, and is now making it's way through the spaghetti track at CP Lumber.

Amtrak Phase II heritage unit 66 leads the deadheading Southwest Chief, #3 along the LA river as it heads for the 8th street coach yards for some TLC. The consist for #3 after being cleaned and se... (more)

Not wasting any time at all, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief blows through Somonauk, headed for its next stop at Princeton.

The outbound Southwest Chief is wasting no time as it highballs down the former BN, through the town of Oneida. Four private cars are at the rear of today's train.

East bound Southwest Chief approaching Dalies and changing over to the Glorieta Sub, next stop Albuquerque

Amtrak's phase 4 Heritage unit #184 leads A 4+ hour late Westbound Southwest Chief train #3 at the Natural crossover at Frost.

running a little late Amtrak westbound Chicago to Los Angeles train #3, the Southwest Chief was descending Cajon Pass at Devore, CA led by a trio of fairly new SDP40F's, the first of a number of A... (more)