Sunrise at Summit, and an AT&SF doublestack waits in the background for Amtrak's late running Southwest Chief to overtake and continue its journey down Cajon Pass to Los Angeles. The second locomo... (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.

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.

Amtrak 25 departs with the Southwest Chief in tow, as it passes Amtrak 184, the 40th Anniversary Phase IV painted P42. With 184 entering Union Station, all but one of the Amtrak paint schemes woul... (more)

Amtrak #3 arrives into Naperville, with number 83 leading the way.

Classy, BNSF! The hottest train on the whole BNSF system (Z WSPNBY9, aka the 199) has come to a stop to let Amtrak #3, the Southwest Chief run around.. Shows you BNSF knows how to ru... (more)

The Southwest Chief highballs west through Meriden, passing under the CB&Q searchlights at MP 78.

Other than a Cascades NPCU in the mix, two P42's have a normal Southwest Chief consist up to track speed, of ninety miles per hour.

Amtrak 3 darts across the Western New Mexico desert with the AMTK 4 leading. Confused?

Well over eight hours late, the Southwest Chief races through Commerce right in the middle of about a six minute long sucker hole in the heavy cloud cover. The Grinstein green MAC was picked when ... (more)

Rolling through Fullerton Junction 9 hours 20 minutes late, Amtrak train 4 (the westbound Southwest Chief) has had a number of setbacks on its journey from Chicago to Los Angeles. Among ... (more)

Fellow contributor Jim Hinkhouse, with contributions from seven decades of railroading, dials in a parting shot as ... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief enters the Wootton Curve, made famous by AT&SF publicity photos of yore.

Amtrak 3, the westbound California Zephyr, highballs through Montgomery at track speed. The CB&Q signal bridge, here, has been taken down without a trace, since this photo was taken.